Stamp News Australasia - July 2017 by Stamp News Australasia

Australia Post Collectables

Trans-Australian Railway: 1917–2017 Released 4 July 2017

2495 Medallion cover

17 95

Postal and numismatic cover (RAM)

Postal and numismatic cover (Perth Mint)

$ 45 Stamp pack

2 30 each

First day covers

Norfolk Island Flowers Released 18 July 2017

$ 30

First day cover

Minisheet

Don’t miss out! Shop online at auspost.com.au/stamps while stocks last. Stay up-to-date with the latest stamp issues and sign up to the FREE online newsletter now: auspostcollectables.com.au

Facebook™ www.facebook.com/ auspostcollectables

Twitter™ @stampsaustralia

Instagram™ @auspostcollectables

These stamps and associated products are available from the date of issue at participating Post Offices, via mail order on 1800 331 794 or online at auspost.com.au/stamps while stocks last.

Stamp News Australasia is published monthly by: Kevin Morgan ABN 61 577 987 652

http://www.stampnews.net.au Phone: 0425 795 693 Editor & Advertising Manager: Kevin Morgan kevinmorgan2@live.com Advertising materials & editorial submissions email: stampnewsaus@gmail.com Post: Stamp News PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic, 3158, Australia Assistant Editor, Layout & Design: Máirín Holmes stampnewsaus@gmail.com Subscriptions Manager: David Woodberry Printed by: Printgraphics

Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 Rare Australian Decimal Stamp Variations: David Mallen ..... 12 Syran Stamps: Christer Brunström................................................ 14 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 18 Postal Stationery: Ian McMahon ................................................ 26 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 32 Cinderella Corner: Vito Milana .................................................... 48 Introducing the APF: Daryl Fuller .............................................. 52 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 60

Information Trading Post....................................................................................... 68 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......70 Calendar.............................................................................................. 73 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......74 Internet & Email Directory...................................................... ......78 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82

Newsagent Distribution: Gordon & Gotch

RARITIES - SUPERB ITEMS AT LOW FIXED PRICES - WITH HUGE SCANS - A MUST SEE!

glenstephens.com/rarity.html EMAIL ME TO RECEIVE MONTHLY ‘NETT PRICE’ OFFER LISTS AND GOSSIP: glen@glenstephens.com Stamp News - 5

I’ve featured the Post Office Fastpost services from time to time in this column. The August 2004 issue was entirely devoted to such services, under the banner Australia Post has the Speed you need. That title was based upon a P.O. slogan cancel of the 1980s, which, upon reflection, would probably later come to be regretted. This month I’ll provide an overview of some of the FastFigure 1. Special Delivery not so special post services available during the Decimal era. Military origin (RAAF PO Darwin), and informative Technology, and catchy handstamped marking would potentially find a place buzz terms, would see the comparatively bland “Express Delivery” service of earlier years expanded in a variety of exhibits. Pity the service for which the sender paid the PO 12c (one-third of total cost) upon considerably. To finish off the article, I’ve inwas lacking. That was the additional fee for Special cluded a few non-P.O. accelerated delivery services. Delivery (rebranding of Express Delivery from Apr 1 Figure 1, with its attractive Bird series franking, 1959), to a large institution in Sydney, clearly visited by PO delivery staff outside of normal office hours. The handstamped “NO ATTENDANCE / DELIVER ORDINARY MAIL” tells us as much: anything but “Special”. On Oct 1 1967, a new Fastpost service was introduced, called Special Despatch. For a premium equal to the ordinary postage rate, an article would be provided priority treatment. The article would Figure 2. New service, rather elusive 6 - Stamp News

Figure 3. Always a bonus when a label is tied

the drain. The Same Day Delivery extension of the Australia Post Express service was shortlived, and restricted by distance from A to B, obviously. Figure 4 is one of but a handful I’ve seen of articles which utilised this service. This went from Geelong to Kew Victoria Jun 20 1983. Note “11.40am 20/6/83” arrival notation. This was an expensive service, $4.35 for 100-250gms (regular mail was 60c), so reassuring that service was

be handed in at PO counter, where dedicated label was affixed. Figure 2 is an early example of the new delivered. Figure 5 is another example of Australia Post service, the label neatly tied, just nine days after Express service, on this occasion delivered next service was introduced. This was a forerunner of the day, given it went across the Continent from Perth better-known Priority Paid service. Examples of the precursor service are rather scarce. Figure 3 is a pleasing item for either of a Fastpost or usage exhibit. The 50c Architecture is a difficult stamp to find on cover, and its use here for a specific postal service, Messenger Delivery, is scarce. The label advising use of the special service is nicely tied, but again by that “NO ATTENDANCE” handstamp. The addressee, a legal firm, again had been visited out of normal office hours. 50c down Figure 4. Big in dimension . . . and rarity

Stamp News - 7

to Melbourne. Cost was $4.70 for 50-100gms. The “CONFIDENTIAL” label would have been affixed by Perth sender, understandable perhaps given the addressee. Figure 6: Jan 3 1990 use of PSE sent Pymble to Kensington NSW. The article was carried by Express Courier service, costs of which were paid in cash (witness Pymble “Paid” cds as receipt). The actual cost of this service, and it would have been expensive, I can’t advise, for my PO Figure 5. “Confidential”, not without reason Guide states “For information on charges and conditions ask at your Post Office”! The article has been adorned with the original “Express Courier” label, a more contemporary issue with despatch number, and the associated “Same Day” label, the last seldom seen. Now for a few overseas-related items, to add an international flavour. Firstly, Figure 7, Overseas Express Delivery, on this occasion an 18c Embossed stationery envelope uprated for 40c airmail to Canada. The Figure 6. An article clearly in a hurry $1 Painting has been affixed for the additional service, but in fact the rate was 90c only. The article left Canberra Apr 30 1976, and didn’t arrive in Canada until May 7. It took a further two days for delivery to destination, so not particularly fast service, for more than thrice base rate. Overseas use of Express service are not easy to find, and I reckon would make for an interesting and colourful one-framer. Figure 8 is a dream item for an exhibit of Fastpost services or Decimal usage; the $10 Painting is elusive on commercial cover, and this is a nice example from corner of sheet. Sent by International Priority paid service, Dianella WA to Holland Mar 6 1981, at Figure 7. Nice subject for one-frame exhibit 8 - Stamp News

Figure 8. Nice usage item for elusive $10 Painting

Figure 9. Expensive international service Stamp News - 9

a cost of $11.50 (up to 500gms). Compare this to ordinary airmail cost of just 35c. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;May be subject to delayâ&#x20AC;? comment upper left, presumably applied at Dianella PO, would hardly be confidence inspiring? Figure 9 sees a Korea Post EMS Speedpost label affixed to airmail cover to NSW. Postage was paid in Korea, and upon arrival a barcoded International Express Post label was attached, tied by Priority Paid timeFigure 10. For GB Machin or Aussie Fastpost collection clock. The article left Dae Jeon Oct 6 1989, Figure 10 is from Paisley GB to NSW, sent May arriving at destination 28 1990. Three separate delivery cards were left at four days later. The reciprocal service Australia-KoPO box for collection (noted by hand towards left), rea was $18 (up to 500gms). I would have expected regular airmail to have completed the journey in four but addressee had relocated from Riverwood to Forster. The addressee apparently orchestrated redirecdays, at a comparative cost of 70c? tion of the article from Riverwood by PO Overnight Parcel Service, the cost for which (up to 125gms as indicated on Customs declaration) was 90c. A service for which survival rate of articles is low, given it was primarily intended for parcels. The final three items are alternative services to the various Fastpost services provided by PO. This is an interesting sub-category, for which material is generFigure 11. When Minutes Count! 10 - Stamp News

have previously heard of Bicycle Brigade City Express? Run by Braggs Couriers, a unit of Mayne Nickless Ltd, Figure 13 provides an example of an article delivered within Sydney by the service. Envelopes, documents, small parcels up to 1kg would be delivered for a pre paid $2.50. I believe this item is 1990s. I’ve seen but a few. Presumably Figure 12. Government service competes with Aust Post they operated in most if not all capital cities and ally elusive. Articles sent by these alternative servicterritories? es tend to be oversize, likely to contain commercial So concludes this overview. If any reader is and/or legal documents. Figure 11 is unusual in that inspired to start a collection of Fastpost material, perthe label for conveyance is affixed to a standard-size haps to also embrace £SD-era, I can probably assist envelope. Trans-Australia Airlines had their TAA (rod at rap.com.au). Air Express service, for “When Minutes Count!”. The so-called “Whispering” 727 T-Jet was introduced in Australia in 1965, so this item probably just scrapes in as Decimal-era. Figure 12 I find unusual: Commonwealth Government Skyroad Express. This was affixed to envelope Sep 6 1985, and required signature from receiver. Odd that the Commonwealth then had a service which rivalled Aust Post? Few readers I imagine would Figure 13. Bicycle Brigade – start peddling Stamp News - 11

Rare Australian Decimal Stamp Variations Here are some of the decimal stamps that are hard to find – if they exist at all ! Soccer 2006 rectangular minisheet: This special trimmed minisheet was issued on 9 May 2006 on a cancelled First Day Cover. The original mint minisheet was round and 170mm in diameter. This was trimmed down to 130 x 80mm and attached to the envelope. Why didn’t they just use a bigger envelope for the original round minisheet? Many collectors got out the scissors and created their own mint rectangular minisheet. (This was the second time a minisheet had been only issued cancelled – a common occurrence nowadays.) ONJ Charity gummed stamp: It is rare for a self-adhesive stamp to be issued alone with no gummed stamp also available. The 60c ONJ Charity self-adhesive stamp was issued in a sheetlet of 10 on 26th June 2012 for $8. The gummed variation was released in a special minisheet on 9th November 2012 as part of the Annual Collection. It was imperforate and deemed a “collectable” stamp if cut out from the minisheet. (“Collectable” stamps are not valid for postage.) I wonder if any postally used gummed stamps exist? 60c Melbourne Cup stamps with integrated tabs: 4 gold-foiled 60c Cup perforated gummed stamps were released in a vertical strip

12 - Stamp News

by Da

by David Mallen of 4 stamps in a special sheetlet on 20th December 2010. Each stamp had a large integrated tab on the left that was 5 times the width of the stamp. There was an elliptical hole between the stamp image and the tab! Why?! The bottom stamp from the sheetlet is pictured. (This was the final stamp issue of 2010 and features on the front cover of my Australian Stamp Variations Catalogue : 1966 – 2010 (2016 Edition).) Australia 45c Personal Greetings with ‘wide’ tabs: These 2 stamps were originally issued with tabs on 1st September 1999 in sheetlets of 20 stamps. The 45c Wedding Rings had a ‘narrow’ 16mm tab and the 45c Christmas Decoration had an ‘extra wide’ 23.5mm tab. They were later released in blocks of 4 in Prestige Booklets both with ‘wide’ 20mm tabs. The 45c Wedding Rings in the “Weddings” booklet (11th May 2002) and the 45c Christmas Decoration in the “Christmas” booklet (31st October 2003). Back-to-back self-adhesive stamps: The “Living Green” set of stamps issued on 8th July 2008 was the first time back-to-back, self-adhesives were released. In the Prestige Booklet, pages 25 and 26 each contained a block of 4 of the 50c stamps. They were back-to-back on a

single sheet. The normal booklet of 20 self-adhesive stamps also had 2 blocks of 4 on one side and 3 on the other side of the same sheet. Do you know of any other back-to-back double-sided selfadhesives? If you know of any other rare decimal stamps, please let me know. David Mallen Australian Stamp Variations Melbourne david@asv.net.au www.asv.net.au issuu.com/asvcat Co-author of the Australian Stamp Variations Catalogue 2011-2015 au.blurb.com/bookstore

Stamp News - 13

HOBBY OF KINGS In late May 2019 the international exhibition STOCKHOLMIA 2019 will open its doors to thousands of visitors who would like to take part in the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Royal Philatelic Society London. The Royal Patron of the exhibition is H M King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. As far as I know, the Swedish monarch has only a very limited interest in postage stamps. In fact, the Swedish royal family has included accomplished artists but no philatelists. This is certainly not the case in the UK where members of the royal family began stamp collections soon after the Penny Black had reached post ofﬁce counters in 1840. Today H M Queen Elizabeth II is the owner of the foremost collection of British and Commonwealth postage stamps. She even employs a Keeper of the Royal Collection. Michael Seﬁ is the current holder of this important position. In September each year, he gives a display from the Queen’s collections at a meeting of the Royal Philatelic Society London.

14 - Stamp News

Queen Elizabeth II is of course the Royal Patron of this society which was founded way back in 1869. However, it should be noted that it is not the Queen who has put together this impressive collection but her forefathers. King Edward VII (1841-1910) occupied the British throne from 1901 until his death in 1910. He took a strong interest in stamp collecting and it was Edward who decided to change the Society’s name by the addition of Royal in 1906. Shown nearby is a stamp depicting the king. The stamp was an ofﬁcial one intended for the correspondence of the Royal Household. It was issued in 1902. King George V acceded to the throne in 1910. He had served as the president of the Royal Philatelic Society London since 1896 but on his coronation he had to leave that particular position. The king is shown nearby on a Gibraltar stamp issued in 2010 marking the centenary of his coronation. As can be seen the

Christer Brunström king is absorbed in the stamp album on the table in front of him. When the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists (RDP) was established in 1921, King George V was the ﬁrst signatory. King George VI (1895-1952) then continued the royal philatelic tradition by adding to the family collection. King Carol II (1893-1953) of Romania was a serious philatelist (when he was not meddling in Romanian politics). He built a very large collection of Romania’s classic issues. But his philatelic interests were not limited to his homeland. He owned the famous Swedish Three Skilling Banco Yellow error stamp from 1937 until it was sold in 1950. When he acquired the rarity in 1937 it cost him £5.000. At the recent FINLANDIA 2017 show I saw a wonderful exhibit of Finland’s classic oval stamps some of which were ex-King Carol. King Carol was of course depicted on numerous

Romanian postage stamps. He is shown here in scout uniform. In Egypt King Fuad (1868-1936) started an advanced collection of mostly Egyptian postage stamps. He was helped by the Egyptian post office which provided full sheets of all new issues. The collection was continued by his son Faruq (1920-1965) who was particularly keen on varieties of all kinds. The Post Office obliged him by producing perforation varieties of all new issues. King Faruq had many collections ranging from jewellery and rare coins to match box labels and pornography. The stamp collection was housed in five huge safes in his Cairo palace. When he was deposed in 1952, his many collections were auctioned off by the new régime. Before leaving Egypt he was of course depicted on many postage stamps. One is shown nearby. King Faruq settled in Monaco and due to his vora-

Stamp News - 15

HOBBY OF KINGS cious appetite he became quite fat. He died in a restaurant in Rome in 1965 while having dinner. Sadeq Mohammad Khan (1904-1966) became Nawab of Bahawalpur at the early age of three in 1907. I don’t know when he developed his interest in philately but he certainly was a most serious collector. In 1947 he was given the title of Amir of his state which had chosen to join Pakistan. It was now that Bahawalpur released its ﬁrst stamps. It was only in 1953 that Pakistani stamps were fully introduced in the state. Bahawalpur’s stamps are exceptionally beautiful and it is highly probable that the Amir was involved in the selection of designs. The Amir was of course depicted on some of the stamps. Prince Rainier III (1923-2005) of Monaco also has a reputation as a serious philatelist. He assembled a very large collection of the principality’s stamps and postal history. It is now housed in the Stamp and Coin Museum which was inaugurated in 1950. The Prince also helped start the MonacoPhil exhi-

16 - Stamp News

bitions which are held every second year. Following his father’s death, Prince Albert is now the patron of the event but I doubt he shares his father’s interest in philately. There seems to be a lack of gender equality in royal philately. A few years ago Gibbons Stamp Monthly featured an interview with H R H Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand. She was described as a serious philatelist. The princess also enjoyed mailing postcards to herself on her many journeys to foreign lands. She is the only female royal collector that I have been able to locate. I suspect that some of my readers may be republicans and by now annoyed by this avalanche of royalty in philately. A number of democratically elected presidents have also taken a strong interest in stamp collecting. Franklin D. Roosevelt spent a lot of time will his stamp collections to get some peace and quiet from a stressful daily life. Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is also known to continue a family collection started by his father.

Australia £2 Black and Red Kangaroo. Attractive Used WITH “Cut Throat Roo” Cat $1,400 for $A725: The ONE stamp missing from near all Australia collections is the “2 Pound Roo”. They have

never been cheap, and get dearer each year. Indeed the retail price increase on these beats out the inflation rate every year. They were ALL used on really heavy parcels, and MOST have condition issues as a result. Tears, scuffs, creases, thins, greasy stains, or perforation problems etc. This one is better than usual in all those respects. NO CTO copies were ever possible in later £2 watermarks, so nice looking postal used FAULT FREE examples are highly sought. Clean and fresh and flat, and bright vivid deep colours, and totally free of hinges and gook and gunk, and the thins and creases and scuffs etc, so common on heavy parcel useage stamps. Light cancel totally free of the scarce “Cut Throat Roo” ACSC 58(V)j Cat $1,400. Juzwin $725 for average used with NO variety. SG 138, ACSC 58. $A725 (Stock 428AB)

“ADELAIDE 2016 30c” Koala, postally used on piece, rare early *08JAN* cancel: This Adelaide Emergency issue is THE hottest thing on the global stamp scene from recent years. A small number were made on the CPS machine in storage at Adelaide GPO, when rate increased with almost no notice, and mostly were used on business mail, and near all tossed away by recipients. I have never owned a VERY early commercial cancel from the first 2 days they were on sale. This superbly dated “08JAN16” Adelaide mail centre “AMC” machine cancel (as near all of this issue bears) is a GEM. I’ve seen a couple of early dates where date was near unreadable, as it fell on the black violet 70c stamps mostly used in conjunction to make the new $1 rate. This is the far scarcer Type “B” printing with the ‘1994’ micro date well inside the RH border. Renniks cat $500 used, for cheaper Type A with later dates. A one-off, and the nicest offering of this issue I’ve had for ages. Have several other different 30¢ values used on piece, ($A350 each) and one 30c ”B” used on similar piece, with scarce “Reversed Albino Offset” print - superb example for $A550.) $A475 (Stock 693KL)

Australia 1970 Definitives Pack in *JAPANESE* language for “EXPO 70” in Osaka: In 40 years of stamp dealing, I have owned just one of these. And here it is! By FAR the rarest PO emission of the entire Decimal currency era, of over a Half Century. In 1970 Australia issued this GIGANTIC face value pack, and almost none sold. Add it up - FACE was $10.47 as you can see. ‘No big deal’ you might think today. Well near 50 years back, that was huge. A First Class letter then cost 5¢! (Witness the 2 different 5c Queens) so $10.47 bought you 210 x first class stamps. Today a First Class letter is $1.50 so 210 of those is $315 in today’s money. Would YOU pay $A315 TODAY for a new issue PO pack? Of course not, and certainly no-one did in 1970, so they are super scarce, and retail MANY $100s despite being on sale nationally. Better still the PO had a booth at the “EXPO 70” Exhibition in Osaka. They added a JAPANESE language leaflet inside outlining the stamp issues and background. MASSIVE flop - almost none were sold! 1970 was not so very long after Japan was nuked in WW2. The people were VERY poor then, and slowly rebuilding the country, and were not about to spent a month’s wages on a foreign stamp pack! A PO staffer who was there told me in 1979, that only about 40 packs were sold, and the rest were destroyed. At the same “EXPO 70”, the PO had “Japanese” language insert packs of the 1970 Royal Visit pack (cost 35¢), and the 1970 EXPO pack (cost 25¢!) and 1970 Cook pack (cost $1.10) and even they sold very poorly, despite being FORTY times cheaper, and today all have very high cat values as you will realise. Clean, fresh, unopened pack - been in the UK near all its life - bought from a dealer there, on my visit there in June 2017. ASC Cat $2,500, and I guarantee you can spend a day, and phone EVERY stamp dealer on earth, and NONE will have this - at ANY price. Do check! Have the NORMAL pack for $A400. (Stock 471TL) ASC Cat $2,500 - bought quite well, so save a massive ~$1,000 at just - $A1,425 (Stock 471TK) Order via: tinyurl.com/GlenOrder All Cards accepted with ZERO fee - even Amex! Bank Deposit fine, or Money Orders. PayPal is accepted in ANY major currency, saving you fees - contact me first. LayBys/Layaways always OK with me!

GLEN STEPHENS

PO Box 4007, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068, Australia. - Phone (02) 9958 1333 e-mail me: glen@glenstephens.com - www.glenstephens.com/rarity.html Life Member: American Stamp Dealers Association (New York.) Philatelic Trader’s Society. (London.)

Stamps in the News - Globally! Australia Post’s shame file: Secret sale of Sydney GPO Reported at www.smh.com.au

Australia Post has sold one of Sydney’s most historic buildings, the GPO on Martin Place, to Singaporean billionaires Robert and Phillip Ng in a secretive deal, despite concerns raised in a heritage report it commissioned last year and never made public. Australia Post sold the property to Singaporean international property developer Far East, controlled by the Melbourne GPO now an H&M fashion retail outlet. Note the careNg brothers, in March for $150 milful attention to heritage measures being maintained. lion. It has never announced the deal. Australia Post have only recently confirmed the sale which has been approved by the we had to keep it secret and perhaps fair enough, Foreign Investment Review Board and is pending but the report clearly said they shouldn’t do it and of signoff from Commonwealth Heritage. course they’ve done it.” About half of the building was sold in 1997 and Australia Post said the heritage measures would a 99-year lease put in place for the remainder. be maintained. That lease is held by the new purchaser, Far East, However, Fairfax Media has seen plans that which also owns businesses on the existing freehold purport to show Far East intends to make significant title, including a hotel. changes to the internal structure of the GPO, includ“The transaction will free valuable capital to ing a row of luxury shops on the ground floor that invest in our people and our services to the comwould extend into the lower ground floor, which is munity without any impact on the continued operacurrently open space. tion of heritage protections,” Australia Post said in a The larger retail floor space would allow a sigstatement. nificant increase in rents. Other plans include filling The heritage-listed GPO was opened in 1874 and the void in the middle of the ground floor, allowing a post office will continue operating there under a for greater cafe access, and removal of columns that lease until 2096. were part of the heritage renovation in 1999. The sale has been described as “outrageous” by Far East is also planning outdoor, piazza-style president of the National Trust in New South Wales dining in Martin Place parallel to the Cenotaph. A Clive Lucas, who prepared the 300-page heritage development application before the City of Sydney report for Australia Post ahead of the sale negotiafrom the existing cafe operator shows the RSL has tions. been engaged in talks concerning the outdoor dining The report warned against selling the GPO to site near the sensitive memorial for several years. overseas interests saying it was a significant loss from a heritage perspective. “I think lots of people are very against us selling Australia Post’s shame file: The our heritage, selling the family silver and there’s CWA calls for a review nothing more important to Sydney than the Sydney Reported at www.dailyadvertiser.com.au GPO - it’s the heart of the city,” Dr Lucas said. “The report done by the office, we were told One of Wagga’s most powerful groups has pushed 18 - Stamp News

Compiled by

Margo Campbell The CWA has now commenced lobbying for a review of postal services.

Russian Post hacked

Reported at www.reuters.com

for a change after suffering at the hands of Wagga’s “disgraceful” postal service. Riverina’s Country Women’s Association (CWA) branch members successfully raised a motion at the annual NSW State Conference, pushing for a review of the current postal system. President Ann Adams said members were “fed up”, with lengthy service wait times and higher prices. “We thought when the prices went up the service would improve but instead it’s gone backward,” Ms Adams said. “One of my priority paid letters took nine days to arrive, we used to have a good service.” Currently much Riverina mail has to be routed via Canberra. “For a big regional area like Wagga to need to send mail to Canberra is disgraceful, the service has gone down big time,” Ms Adams said. Members have reported mail routinely taking two and a half months to arrive. When the Wagga motion was raised nationally it was resoundingly endorsed. “There were so many people disillusioned with the postal service so that motion went really well,” Ms Adams said.

Russia’s postal service was hit by Wannacry ransomware in May and some of its computers are still down, employees in Moscow said, the latest sign of weaknesses that have made the country a major victim of the global extortion campaign. It is claimed that Wannacry compromised the post office’s automated queue management system, infecting touch-screen terminals which run on the outdated Windows XP operating system. Terminals were still blank in some parts of Moscow this week but it was not clear exactly how many branches had been affected. A spokesman for Russian Post, said no computers were infected, but some terminals were temporarily switched off as a precaution. “The virus attack did not touch Russian Post, all systems are working and stable,” he said. Other institutions in Russia have said they were infected by the virus, highlighting Moscow’s readiness to show it too is a frequent victim of cyber crime in the face of allegations from the United States and Europe of state-sponsored hacking. The Interior Ministry, mobile operator MegaFon

Stamp News - 19

Stamps in the News - Globally! and Russian Railways all reported infections, with employees locked out of their computers and the creators of the virus demanding ransoms of $300 to $600. That the infected post office terminals ran on Windows XP - which Microsoft stopped supporting in 2014 - points to the widespread use of outdated software in Russia, which experts say left the country disproportionately vulnerable to the attack. Of 300,000 computers infected worldwide, 20 percent were in Russia, according to an initial estimate by cybersecurity researchers last week. It has not previously been reported that the Russian postal service, which employs more than 350,000 people, had been hit by the virus. “The head guys rang on Thursday and said we had to turn off the terminals immediately. They said this extortion virus had infected them,” a Moscow postal worker said, declining to be identified. “They rang again yesterday and said we could turn them back on. We did that, but you can see they still don’t work.”

Qatar post stops

Reported at www.reuters.com The United Arab Emirates’ national postal service,

20 - Stamp News

Emirates Post Group, has suspended all postal services to Qatar, state news agency WAM said on Thursday, after the Gulf state cut diplomatic and travel ties with Qatar earlier this week. “Emirates Post Group has suspended postal services to Qatar from all of its postal offices in the UAE from 6th June, until further notice,” the agency said, adding items in transit would be returned.

On the ball in the US

Reported at https://about.usps.com The U.S. Postal service is getting a little touchy about their new stamps. Postal officials are planning to release first-of-a-kind stamps with the look — and feel — of actual balls used in eight popular sports. The Have a Ball! Forever stamps will be available nationwide on June 14, and will depict balls used in baseball, basketball, football, golf, kickball, soccer, tennis and volleyball. Officials say a special coating applied to selected areas of the stamps during the printing process gives them a texture that mimics the feel of a: baseball’s stitching; golf ball’s dimples; tennis ball’s seams; soccer ball

Compiled by

Margo Campbell

or volleyball’s textured panels; and the different raised patterns of a football, basketball and kickball.

Off the rails in Kenya

Reported at www.businessdailyafrica.com The Postal Corporation of Kenya has launched a new set of postage stamps to commemorate the standard gauge railway. The stamp bears the portrait of a smiling President Uhuru Kenyatta standing on the new railway line. The Postmaster General Dan Kagwe said the stamps are part of the firm’s tradition to capture Kenya’s changes and historical milestones in rail transport. “It is a historic thing. It signifies the major infrastructural changes the government has undertaken. Philatelists are going to enjoy these stamps worldwide,” said Mr Kagwe. “Our business is to communicate with the world. It is going to be beamed all over China to about 1.2 billion people. Buying of stamps in China will create big business,” he insisted. He said the stamps will be a reminder in the

future of the moment Kenya inaugurated the mega infrastructure project. “Every year or whenever there are milestones we make stamps to remind people about the changes undertaken for future reference. We did one during promulgation of the new constitution,” he added.

Off the wall in Australia Reported at www.eveningecho.ie

Irish artist ‘fin DAC’ has been immortalised after his work was chosen to appear on Australian stamps. The artist was contacted by Australia Post after he created a mural in Adelaide in Australia while visiting in 2015. Australia Post was putting together a collection of stamps with the best street art in the country and fin Dac, was the only non-Australian resident to feature in the final selection. Late to professional artistry, fin DAC transitioned from a hobbyist to an artist in his late 30’s during a messy break-up with his partner of 10 years. Fin DAC said: “It was a very stressful situation Stamp News - 21

Stamps in the News - Globally! and I regressed back to my teenage days of painting It’s like meditation, it helps you forget about everything. It offered me peace of mind and cleared my head while also giving me an end product. The artist, who now travels around the world creating art on streets and buildings said he had no plan to become an artist, although he did dabble as a teenager in street art. “I used to paint on the White Street car park on Grattan Street. We used to call it ‘The Walls of Fame’. Other artists featured in the series are Adnate, Vans the Omega and Rone and Phipps

Off with her head in England Reported at www.irvinetimes.com

Royal Mail is marking the 50th anniversary of the current design on its stamps with a new issue. The so-called Machin Definitive stamp, with its image of the Queen, has been reproduced in more than 130 colours since 1967 and reprinted an estimated 220 billion times. It is considered to be one of the most reproduced images in the world, featuring a profile of the Queen

22 - Stamp News

by sculptor Arnold Machin. Born in Stoke-on-Trent, he had a long association with Wedgwood potteries and also designed the profile of the Queen that appeared on coins from 1968 to 1984. Before 1967, an image of the Queen taken by society photographer Dorothy Wilding was used on stamps. Dominic Newton, Arnold Machin’s nephew and director and trustee of the Machin Arts Foundation, said: “Arnold Machin regarded his design and sculpture for the definitive issue stamp as his greatest achievement. “He saw his task as creating a design with charm and dignity and yet without sentimentality, both a likeness of the Queen and an image of the

Compiled by

Margo Campbell

monarchy. The result was an iconic design that has stood the test of time.” Royal Mail spokesman Philip Parker said: “We are proud to mark the golden anniversary of the Machin Definitive with new stamps showing the evolution of this design classic.” A set of six stamps were issued today, featuring different stages of the design, including a preliminary sketch.

Free stamps in Switzerland

Reported at http://postandparcel.info In early June, Swiss Post delivered two free stamps worth CHF 1 each to every household in Switzerland. The campaign is being run as part of an agreement drawn up with the price regulator. In a statement Swiss Post explained: “The distribution of the stamps was agreed with the price regulator in Summer 2016 as part of an arrangement comprising price savings and streamlining. “The agreement is being implemented in stages, and began in early 2017. As a result of the agreement, the prices for domestic A and B Mail letters, which were last increased in 2004, and for domestic parcels, also remained unchanged. Additional customer benefits include a price reduction for the SMS postage stamp from CHF 1.20 to CHF 1, effective since 1 January 2017.

Free stamps in Festus

Reported at www.myleaderpaper.com Visitors to the Festus Post Office, Missouri this month may have received a free stamp, or maybe a few free stamps, thanks to First Baptist Church of

Festus-Crystal City members, who gave them out for about an hour as part of a community outreach effort. “We’re giving one or whatever they need,” said Ryan Nichols, a student pastor at the church. “If they want four, we’ll give them four.” Church members said they purchased 100 stamps and started giving them out at about 1:40 p.m. at the entrance to the post office entrance. Nichols said the stamp giveaway was part of a week-long giving effort, including free coffee and doughnuts, barbecues and other surprises for the community. He said the point of the giveaways “is to show people the love of Christ.” About 15 members of the congregation took part in the stamp giveaway.

Stamps of remembrance

Reported at www.thetown-crier.com A long time ago and far away from home is a time and place remembered by World War II veteran Bob Rothfus. In the early morning hours of Feb. 19, 1945, Rothfus, with the Marine Corps Fifth Division, stormed the beaches of the Japanese-held isStamp News - 23

Stamps in the News - Globally!

land of Iwo Jima in the Western Pacific. What then ensued was one of the fiercest battles on record, where 5,900 Americans died and 17,000 were wounded. Throughout the years since the war’s end, each year on Memorial Day Rothfus takes pause to honour the service of men and women who gave their lives. This past Memorial Day weekend Rothfus’s longtime friend, Joe Chipman showed his appreciation by presenting Rothfus with a framed poster he created displaying four, 3-cent postage stamps and a written narrative explaining the history of the stamps. The stamps depict the raising of the American Flag by U.S. Marines on Feb. 23, 1945, high atop Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima. The narrative included in the frame tells about the stamp and how the original idea was rejected by the U.S. Postal Service because “it violated the standing policy that no postage stamp would be issued depicting persons still living.”

24 - Stamp News

However, because of great demand from the public, it was decided to go ahead with the “Iwo Jima” stamps. The stamp went on sale in July of 1945 and for many years to follow would be the best selling stamp of all time. According to Chipman, during his research he learned this iconic photograph is one of the most reproduced images in history. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal was awarded the Pultizer Prize for Photography for capturing the historical event on film which is now preserved forever in the hearts and minds of all Americans.

Back on track in London Reported at www.bbc.com

The Royal Mail’s abandoned underground railway in London will open as a tourist attraction next month, it has been announced. Visitors to the Postal Museum can ride on a section of the 6.5 mile (10.5km) network, from 28 July. The track, which was established in 1927, took mail between Whitechapel and Paddington before it shut in 2003.

Compiled by

Margo Campbell

Two new trains, based on the originals, will carry up to 32 passengers on a 0.6 mile (1km) section of the line. While it was operational, between four and 12 million items were carried through the tunnels 70ft (21m) below street level each year.

Remains not to be seen Reported at www.wdrb.com

First he lost his mother, and now, because of a shocking mistake by the U.S. Postal service, a southern Indiana man has also lost his mother’s remains. “It’s devastating. It’s sad,” said Donald Mink, a firefighter from Seymour, Indiana. When Mink’s mother passed away in February, she was cremated, and the family paid the postal service to ship her ashes from North Dakota, to her native Indiana. The U.S. Postal Service is the only legal way to ship human remains. “I just want to lay her to rest in Austin with my grandma and grandpa where she belongs,” Mink said. But when the remains failed to arrive after a

couple of weeks, Mink got suspicious. “Ever since I got the tracking number, every time I’ve looked or anybody else has looked, it said that it’s dead mail,” Mink said. In this case, dead mail is an ironic term that means post office has lost Louise Mink’s ashes. “The post office said that they should be in a hub somewhere, maybe in Atlanta, in a recovery hub,” Mink said. “But they don’t know. Obviously, they’ve not gotten them back to me yet.” The postal service made a statement Friday evening: The Postal Service offers our deepest sympathy to the Mink family for the loss of their loved one. We are keenly aware of their desire to locate the missing item as soon as possible. We regret that to date it have not been located, but are committed to our ongoing, vigilant search to find them. The family is still holding out hope that the remains will be found. “There’s no amount of money that can ever bring my mother back, but I do feel like someone should pay, one way or another,” he said. Mink said he has hired an attorney in North Dakota to investigate but has not decided yet whether to file a lawsuit. Stamp News - 25

Postal Stationery This month’s column looks at perforations and rouletting on postal stationery, Caves prepaid postcards and a newly published study on Tasmanian lettercards.

Perforations on Postal Stationery

Like adhesive stamps, the study of postal stationery can include perforations, watermarks, paper varieties, Figure 1 New Zealand 1½ d lettercard, perf 10. stamp dies, flaws and even phosphor bands. tercard, a double card folded in half with a gummed Perforations and rouletting can be found on a edge, provided a solution to the problem, as well as number of types of postal stationery. Lettercards are providing twice the area for the message. To view one type of postal stationery which invariably has the message written on the lettercard the addressee a perforated margin around the card. While postremoved the perforated margin. cards proved popular once they were introduced, Lettercards were first issued by Belgium in they suffered the disadvantage that the sender’s 1882 and are said to have been first conceived by message could be read by the postman, by casual a Hungarian, Akin Karoly. All of the Australian observers and by other family members. The letstates (except for South Australia) and New Zealand issued lettercards commencing with Victoria (1889) followed by New Zealand, New South Wales and Queensland in 1895, Tasmania in 1898 and Western Australia in 1902. As is the case with adhesive stamps, the perforations on lettercards vary in gauge and can be measured using the familiar perforation gauges. The first lettercards of New Zealand are a Figure 2 New Zealand 1½ d lettercard, perf with rounded corners. 26 - Stamp News

Ian McMahon good example of variation in perforations. First issued in 1895, four different perforating machines were used to perforate the lettercards. The first printings of the lettercards were perforated with a rotary machine gauged 10 (Figure 1). Later printings were perforated using a perf 11 rotary machine and a line perf 12½. Lettercards with compound perforations have been reported. Perforating lettercards on these machines required more than one pass through the perforating machine and the perforaFigure 3 New Zealand 4c Queen Elizabeth II lettercard with rouletted selvage. tions extended to the edge of the lettercards. In 1896, a new perforating machine was introduced which enabled the cards to be perforated in one operation. The lines of perforation (perf 10) are rounded at the lower corners of the lettercards and do not extend to the edge (Figure 2). New Zealand used this perforation on its lettercards until 1974. Later lettercards were rouletted as with the Queen Elizabeth II lettercard from New Zealand shown in Figure 3. New Zealand used rouletting on its lettercards from 1974 until the last issue in 1987. Another example of lettercards with perforation variations is the 1911 Queensland 1d + 1d reply lettercards which exist in a variety of perforations, perf 10, 10½ and 12½. Figure 4 shows an example perf 10. Figure 5 shows the attached reply lettercard. The perforation of the message lettercard is slight askew so that part of the selvage of the reply lettercard is perforated twice. Another class of postal stationery which can include perforations or rouletting are reply postcards where Figure 4 Queensland 1911 reply lettercard perf 10.

Stamp News - 27

Postal Stationery the two portions are sometimes perforated or rouletted to enable easy separation. A good example is the Queensland 1d + 1d sideface reply postcard which was first issued in 1889 which can be found perf 6, perf 10 or perf 12. Figure 6 shows an example perf 12. Postal stationery collectors often make use of the world-wide postal stationery catalogue, Higgins and Gage. While perforation gauges are normally quoted in philately as the number of holes per 2 cm, the Higgins and Gage catalogue quotes perforations on reply postcards as the gauge per 3 cm, meaning that perf 18 mentioned in the catalogue listings is actual perf 12 when measured in the usual manner. While this is clearly stated in the Catalogueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general notes it can cause confusion to people using the Catalogue if they are not aware of it, especially as perforations in the lettercard listings (where given) are listed per 2 cm. From the early 1930s to the early 1970s, Canada issued postcards in strips of three (Figure 7) separated by rouletting for use by users to add printed addresses or messages on the reverse. From the 1930s to 1970s, these postcards were printed on soft porous card stock designed Figure 5 (above) Queensland 1911 reply portion of lettercard showing double perforated margin. Figure 6 (right) Message portion of Queensland 1d + 1d reply card, perf 12, used to Denmark.

28 - Stamp News

Ian McMahon to be used in mimeograph machines. (For the younger generation, mimeograph machines that worked by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper and spirit duplicators were an inexpensive means of small scale printing such as printing addresses and advertisements on postcards before the advent of photocopiers and computer printers). Sometimes perforations or rouletting can be added privately by users of postal stationery. An example of a Canadian King George V postcard with a rouletted tab for the addressee to keep is shown in Figure 8. Perforations can also appear on private order postal stationery where a large user of postal stationery will order postal stationery to their own specifications. Figure 9 shows an example of a private order postcard for Canadian Pacific with the postcard forming part of a ‘carbon-set’ form. (Again for the younger generation, before the advent of photocopiers carbon paper was used to enable a copy of a letter to be made at the time of writing the original letter.)

Study on Tasmanian “Lake Views” Lettercards

Figure 7 Canada 12c rouletted strip of three postcards

A detailed study of the Tasmanian “Lake Views” lettercards has been published in MarchApril 2017 Postal Stationery [the Journal of the United Postal Stationery Society], Fig-

Stamp News - 29

Postal Stationery ure 10. The study, by Roger Kinns, builds on an earlier article published in The Courier [Journal of the Tasmanian Philatelic Society] and earlier work by Allen Shatten, Owen Ingles, W Tinsley and others. Tasmania issued pictorial lettercards from 1898 to 1911. The lettercards were either stamped with Queen Victoria sideface stamp or the 2d Tasmanian pictorial stamp. The study by Kinns covers the 1907 issue which show views of mountains and lakes on the reverse: Mount Ida and Lake St Clair; Lake Agnew and Cradle Mountain; Lake George and Mount King William; Mount Olympus and Lake St Clair; and Barn Bluff from Lake Windermere. The study includes the 1911 lettercards surcharged ‘ONE PENNY” and seeks to understand the various printings of the “Lake Views” lettercards by undertaking a census of the lettercards held by collectors. The study is one of a number of studies on Tasmanian postal stationery which have been undertaken by collectors of this area, many of which have been published in The Courier. It is Figure 8 (top right) Canada 1c King George VI postcard with privately added rouletted tab. Figure 9 (middle right)Private order rouletted postcard for Canadian Pacific. Figure 11 (right)Naracoorte Cave prepaid postcard.

30 - Stamp News

Ian McMahon also worth visiting the Tasmanian Philatelic Society website which includes an introduction to Tasmanian Postal Stationery by Allen Shatten which can be found at http://www.tps.org.au/references-2/postal-stationery/ as well as a postal stationery forum which can be found at http://www.tps.org.au/bb/ viewforum.php?f=12 .

Cave Pre-Paid Postcards

Australia released four pre-paid postcards on 2 May 2017 on the theme of Caves (Figure 11). The caves shown on the reverse of the cards are Jenolan Caves (photograph: Owen Wilson Photography), Capricorn Caves (photograph: Owen Wilson Photography), Naracoorte Cave (photograph: Liz Rodgers Photography) and Lake Cave (photograph: debashitistalukdar.com). Figure 10 Postal Stationery March-April 2017 Issue with article on Tasmanian Lettercards.

COINS • STAMPS • BANKNOTES

SUPER FAIR

PETERSHAM TOWN HALL Sunday 30th July, 2017 9.30am to 4.00pm 107 Crystal Street Petersham (Near Station)

★ 28 Dealers Buying & Selling ★ COINS – Australian & World, Royal Australian Mint Coins, Perth Mint Silver and Gold Coins, Ancient Coins, Tokens, Australian and World Banknotes, Medals and Medallions STAMPS – Australian, World & British Commonwealth, Thematics, First Day Covers, Cinderellas, Postal History, Postcards and Ephemera, catalogues & accessories.

BARGAINS GALORE!!! DON’T MISS OUT Adult Admission $2 • $250 in Lucky Door Prizes!! Find out more: visit the SCDAA Website: www.scdaa.com.au

Stamp News - 31

Looking at New Zealand 1973 Steam Locomotives Modes of transport are a popular collecting area for thematic philatelists and trains are particularly popular. New Zealand contributed to this field with an issue featuring four locomotives designed and built in New Zealand. The issue marked the end of an era as the last steam locomotive was withdrawn from service in New Zealand in 1971, replaced by diesel engines. The ‘W’ class consisted of two locomotives built at the Addington Railway Workshops in Christchurch – no. 192 built in 1889 and no. 238 in 1891. After the withdrawal of this class from service in 1959 no. 192 was preserved for historical interest and it is pictured on the 3 cent stamp. It was housed in various museums and enthusiasts’ society collections over the years and carried members of the public in a number of rail journey re-enactments. It is currently in the Ferrymead Heritage Park in Christchurch. The eighteen locomotives in the ‘X’ class, designed by A. L. Beattie, were built at Addington from 1908. They were one of the first types in the world to have a four-cylinder engine and were the first in the world to have the 4-8-2 wheel configuration (4 leading wheels on two axles; 8 driving wheels and 2 trailing wheels). This style of heavy locomotive became popular in the USA where it was used in the Allegheny Mountains. In New Zealand, they were used on the mountainous central section of the main North Island line which had been completed in the first few years of the 20th

32 - Stamp News

century. They were used mainly to pull freight as its maximum speed of 30 miles-per-hour (50 km/h) was too slow for passenger service. The class was withdrawn from service in 1957. No. X442 was preserved and is currently at the Feilding and District Steam Rail Society. It is pictured on the 4 cent stamp. Between 1915 and 1926, 141 engines of the ‘Ab’ class were built as the main workhorse of New Zealand railways. It could pull passenger trains at 100 km/h (62 mph) and goods trains of up to 700 tonnes on easy grades. Engines of this class were gradually replaced by diesels during the 1960s. Two of the locomotives carried memorial plaques to railway men lost in World War I. The engine pictured on the 5 cent stamp is no. 608, carrying the plaque Passchendaele. It is currently preserved in running order in the Wellington area. Two other Ab class engines (nos. 778 and 795) are in use on the ‘Kingston Flyer’ service transporting tourists on the line south of Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown. The nearby photo of no. 778 on the Kingston Flyer service was taken by Brian Snelson. The ‘Ja’ class were another 4-8-2 heavy locomotive built between 1946 and 1956 – the last steam locomotives built in New

JULY SALE Includes a lot more new stock, especially in GB and Australia Kangaroos. Much of this purchased on a 5 day road trip encompassing Albury, Dubbo and Sydney. As usual laybys available for up to 6 months for purchases above $500. (No discounts on Layby items) Orders above $500 are post and insurance free within Australia. If you wish to view any item we can send a scan by email, or colour photocopy by mail. Otherwise visit my website www.kevinmorgan.com.au and go to the EBay link where most of the single stamps and sets may be seen, simply search by the item number. We have a 14 day no quibble refund satisfaction guarantee on all items. Cricket Memorabilia BD406) Don Bradman, genuine very clean signature in blue fountain pen on Australia 1982 Centenary of the Ashes PSE with Pictorial Cancel 24 FEB 1982, Macquarie Centre NSW. Very rare item, price $249 Coins and Banknotes CB17) Australia 1925 1d, in good fine condition. Nice coin with 6 pearls , no edge knocks. Has striking flaw on reverse resulting in a small indentation behind the legend “One Penny” 2nd scarcest of all Australian pennies. Price $210 CB19) Australia 1912 6d in almost extremely fine condition. Cat $550 as EF, this one $379 CB20) Australia 1920 1/- in Extremely Fine condition. Cat. $475, price $410 CB21) Australia 1926 Florin in Uncirculated Condition. with great original lustre and bloom. Cat. $2250, PRICE $1950 CB21) Australia 1931 Florin in Uncirculated Condition. Great original lustre. Cat. $450, price $375 CB23) Australia 1936 Florin in Choice Uncirculated Condition. Great original lustre. Cat. $850, price $595 CB26) Australia 1934/35 Victoria Centenary Florin. Nice coin in Uncirculated condition. Cat. $800, price $675 CB27) Australia 1934/35 Victoria Centenary Florin. Lovely coin in Choice Uncirculated condition. Cat. $1450, price $1275 CB28) Australia 1937 Crown, Uncirculated condition. Cat, $200, price $139 CB29) Australia 1937 Crown, Uncirculated condition, but surface scratches. Cat, $200, price $69 CB30) Australia 1938 Crown, Almost Uncirculated. Cat. $450, price $359 CB31) Australia 1938 Crown, Near Uncirculated. Cat. $450, price $329

CJ3) 1981 Charles and Diana Wedding. Huge 5 volume collection in Stanley Gibbons printed albums, 4 are with slipcases, all virtually as new. This collection contains almost everything issued, including Booklets, Specimens, Gutter Pairs, Minisheets and Sheet lets, Overprints for the birth of Prince William etc. Also a brand new spare binder and stack of new printed pages 3 inches thick! Original cost for the stamps alone 35 years ago stated to be $3000, plus the albums which were another $1000. Incredible lot from deceased estate. Price $1350 CJ4) USA used collection in very clean Harris Liberty Illustrated Album, with pages for 1847 – 1982. Noted 1893 Colombians to 10c, 1898 Trans- Mississippi’s also to 10c. Looks to be around 80% complete to 1982, with lots at back of the book too. A few 100s. Price $110 CJ5) Ancient “Stanley Gibbons Duplicate Album” in great condition containing pockets numbered 1 – 72 for collector’s duplicates. First one of these I have ever seen! Each contains an array of mainly postally used worldwide stamps, mostly pre- 1945. Who knows what gems may lie here. Unchecked by us and as received from deceased estate. Price $89 CJ6) Canada 1868 – late 1970’s in Gibbons Illustrated Album in Red padded binder. Commences Queen Victoria, approx. 35 stamps with values to 15c 1897 Jubilee, cat. £120. Also noted 50c Bluenose, cat. £55. Pretty well 95% complete from 1912 to 1977. Lovely lot, price $179 CJ7) GB 1854 – 1979 2 volume used collection, plus later in Regionals housed in Gibbons Illustrated Album in Red padded binder and Green Padded Binder. Noted QV & KEVII to 2/6d, KGV Seahorses to 5/- (2), KGVI 1939 & 1951 High Value sets complete, a few officials and regionals at back of book. Nice clean lot, around 80% complete 1902 – 1979, several hundreds. price $129 CJ8) World Collection on stack of around 350 - 400 Album Leaves. Early to modern mostly postally used with much better noted inc. complete sets. Appears mostly all different. Got to be worth $1.50 per page….price $525 CMAP1) GB Decimal Booklets collection. Folder booklets from late 1970’s to about 1986, must be about 200 odd here. Values 10p to 5 pounds. Mostly one of each left and right selvedge, plus some Prestige Booklets, again with minor duplications. Retail would be around $1250 - $1300. My price $725 CMAP3) Cyprus. Lovely Mint Unhinged Colln./Accumulation on stockcards Queen Victoria to KGVI. Mostly Very fresh unhinged lot odd minor fault as usual with these lots. Highlights include inc. SG 75, 17 x 4, 19, 46 x 4, 22 x 4, 92 x 2, 130 x 2 and 163. Some plate No. singles, SG 60, 74, 87 plus a good number of blocks of 4, some with sheet Nos. Total SG 2017 Catalogue value, and remember prices for pre. 1937 are for hinged, which are worth at least double, is 2827.50 pounds. Nice lot for research or resale. Current AUD$4800 plus at 10/4/17. Priced at under a third $1595

Accessories/Albums/Literature

CMAP4) Massive Samoa collection mint unhinged 1970’s – 1997 in big blue stockbook. Crammed full with complete sets and minisheets. Looks like 150 plus sets and 65 minisheets, mild duplication, generally max. of 2 of anything. Great value at$150 per set/minisheet. Terrific for thematics. Price $329.

ALB1) Stanley Gibbons Old Ideal Fastbound Album with maroon cover, 6th Edition to 1913. Contains spaces for all World stamps A - Z. In good used condition. (Spine has been reinforced with cloth tape. These albums are highly sought after and sell for up to $250 at auction. Price $149

CMAP5) Medium blue stockbook, with mint unhinged array of Papua New Guinea, Christmas Is. & Norfolk Is. Sets, 1970s/80s. Some duplication. Counted roughly 120 complete sets with many better thematics and inc. 4 long definitive sets inc. Christmas Is. Birds and Butterflies sets. At just $1.50 per set this is a fantastic lot. Price $179

B1) 100 different uncirculated world banknotes. Great starter lot. Price $75

Collections and lots CJ1) Australia 1913 – 1975 Used Collection on Seven Seas pages in Dark Green Binder. Much of this collection is cto. Noted Kangaroos to 2/- Brown, KGV Heads to 5d. cto items noted are 3d & 6d Kookaburra, Sturt pair, 3d Airmails types A & B, Kingsford Smith set, plus 6d Brown plus 2d & 3d Ovpt. OS, 1934 Victoria Centenary, 1940 AIF etc. Also noted Robes set to One Pound Fine used. 1953 – 1975 is virtually complete and includes 1971 Christmas blocks of 7 and 9, plus a FDC. A fine lot, price $950 CJ2) Great Britain 1953 – 2000 Massive Dealer stock in 5 large stockbooks. Noted 1953 Coronation to 1/6d x 10, 1963 Lifeboat 1/6d x 7. Red Cross 1/6d x 6 etc, and so on for most issues through to 2000. Many hundreds of complete sets, mostly used, but with some mint/ mint unhinged. Also Machin heads galore, with values to £5, all neatly ordered chronologically, many with descriptions. Superb lot for the hoarder, research or reselling! 10,000 stamps plus for $525.

CMAP6) Big red stockbook very well filled with mint unhinged sets of Papua New Guinea & Nauru, plus oddments of China at back. Several long definitive sets noted, inc. PNG Shells to $2 x 2. Counted near 150 complete sets. Some duplication, mainly in horizontal pairs. This lot priced at only $1.25 per set average. Price $185 CMAP7) Br. Commonwealth 1981 Royal Wedding collection mint unhinged in Green leather grain binder on 45 as new Hagner pages (retail $1.75 each = $78.75) and comprising the Royal Yacht set of minisheets, plus the Crown Agents omnibus, and 16 booklets. Huge original cost with 60 minisheets and 75 minisheets. Looks pretty well complete, inc. overprints etc. very good value at just $1.50 per set/booklet/minisheet. $225. CMAP10) Nauru & Cocos (Keeling) Is. Collection in blocks of 4, mint unhinged 1981 - 1984. Housed in luxury padded leathergrain blue Ka-Be 32 black page block album, almost as new (Cost new today $50) Roughly 120 complete sets inc. 8 x long definitive sets for Nauru Island Life and Cocos Butterflies. Huge face, catalogue and retail value. To clear at just under $1.50 per set, price $179

KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS & COINS Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693

JULY SALE CJ10) West Germany mint unhinged collection/accumulation 1965 - 1984 housed in Black Padded 64 page stockbook in very good condition ($60 new) Pretty well all full sets, with many semi-postal (charity) sets. In quantities of 1 up to 10 of an item. I counted 285 complete sets plus many hundreds of others issued as singles. Will suit hoarder ebayer or re-seller. Keep what you want for your collection and trade the rest! Counting just the sets at $1.50 each, with the stockbook and all the singles for free, the price is $425. CO10) Australia Post 2006 Commonwealth Games folder, containing 17 sheetlets and 5 stamps released for the Commonwealth Games. The stamps are selling fine commercially used for around $2.50 each, which gives you a vast retail of $325, and these are mint unhinged. My price for the lot of 130 plus stamps is $195 (last one of these) CO35) Malaysia, 1967 – 1979 First Day Cover Collection on FDC pages, 97 all different it appears. Mostly complete sets on official Illustrated covers typed address and Airmailed to Australia, with quite a few registered. Nice clean lot, under $1.50 each price $139 the lot CO37) New Zealand. 1920’s Registered part parcel labels, bearing a variety of frankings, mostly KGV heads to make up 3.5d or 4d rate, one with double rate 8d. All appear from Auckland East. 47 pieces. $69 the lot. Packets and Mixtures PM21) Carton lots of World on paper mixture. This is a good mix with roughly 50% large. Earlies to modern, wide range of countries mostly on well trimmed paper. We can offer 5 sizes: a) Shoebox size lot of around 500 grams $74.50 b) Double lot as above for $139 c) Envelope carton of about 2.5 kg $349 d) Printers box of about 5kg $649 e) Shipping carton of about 10kg Price $1249 Exciting Scandinavia lot just arrived: The term Scandinavia always includes the mainlands of the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Norwegian dependencies, including Svalbard and Jan Mayen, are usually not seen as a part of Scandinavia, nor is Danish Greenland. However, the Danish Faroe Islands are sometimes included, as sometimes are Iceland and Finland, because of their historical association with the Scandinavian countries and the Scandinavian peoples and languages. SC1) Massive lot of 4300 different Scandinavia, inc. Denmark, Iceland, Norway & Sweden. $695, smaller lot of 2000 for $195 SC2) Denmark 600 diff. $33.50, 700 diff. $39, 1200 diff. $98 SC3) Iceland 200 diff. $39, 400 diff. $95, 500 diff. $185, 800 diff. $325 SC4) Norway 600 diff. $33.50, 800 diff. $85 SC5) Sweden 600 diff. $85, 1000 diff. $139, 1500 diff. $229 BE1) British Empire Queen Victoria 100 different $98 BE2) British Empire KEVII & KGV 100 different $79 BE3) British Empire KGVI 100 different $49 BE4) British Empire Mixed reigns, pre- QEII a) 100 different $75, b) 200 different $149, c) 300 different $225, d) 500 different $495, e) 1000 different $995 PM4) 500 Different Jersey, mostly large and with some nice better values biggest available packet of this small island. 50 different are on my packets list for $13, so a bargain at $89

PM13) New Zealand, decimal off paper mix, wide ranging with some nice high values. Very good variety, around 1000 for under 5c a stamp, $49, 2500 for $115. PM14) Great Britain Six reigns off paper mix, back in stock, really great variety with plenty of better values. You will not better this mix anywhere for the price. Approx 1000 for $49, 2500 for $115, 5000 for $219, 10,000 for $419 PM28) Papua New Guinea, magnificent off paper mixture, 1950’s to recent with many better and scarcer values noted. Just received ex. Church Mission in Melbourne. Roughly 500 to 600 stamps per 50 grams, price $79, 100 grams $149, 250 grams $349 (Be quick only a small amount of this available) PM29) Australia close clipped single paper modern charity/mission mix. Most recent available ex. New Church source in Melbourne. Lots of 70c & $1 commems seen. Sold as received, only 20kg available. 500g for $49, 1kg $89, 2.5kg $210, 5kg $395, 10kg $759 Great Britain I have more than 60 1d Blacks in stock ranging in price from $75 to $895. Every collector ought to have one! LM146) GB 1840 Mint 1d Black, plate 6, with certificate. lettered C –K (SG Spec. AS 41) Mint with gum, 4 margins. Very attractive stamp, cat. £13,500. With David Brandon Certificate. Price $10,500 LM140) Great Britain 1840 1d Black and 2d Blue, lettered L – J & T – F. Facially attractive spacefiller examples with Red & Black Maltese Crosses respectively. Both are thinned. Cat. Over £1200. Very cheap at $245 the pair. PB1) GB 1840 1d Black plate 1b, lettered KH, 4 generous margins, showing part of adjoining stamp at top, and a neat Red Maltese Cross. Price $595 PB3) GB 1840 1d Black plate 5, lettered TE, 4 good margins, and a Ruby Maltese Cross which leaves profile clear. Cat. 1200 pounds. Price $665 PB4) GB 1840 1d Black plate 2, lettered KE, 4 good margins, and a neat Red Brown cleanly struck Maltese Cross. Price $595 PB5) GB 1840 1d Black plate 8, lettered BH, 4 good margins, and a lightly struck Red Maltese Cross. Price $595 PB6) GB 1840 1d Black plate 6, lettered AH , 4 decent margins, and a neat Ruby Red cleanly struck Maltese Cross clear of profile. Cat. 1200 pounds. Price $665 PB7) GB 1840 1d Black unplated example lettered AH, 4 margins, showing part of lower stamp, and a neat Ruby Red centrally struck Maltese Cross. Cat 1200 pounds. Price $665 PB8) GB 1840 1d Black unplated example, lettered BF, 3 good margins, just touching at bottom and a neat central Magenta Maltese Cross, cat. 3000 pounds. Price $895 PB10) GB 1840 1d Black plate 8, lettered JB , 4 margins, and a Red Maltese Cross clear of profile. Price a very reasonable $395 PB11) GB 1840 1d Black, SG 2 lettered H-A. Near 4 margin unplated example showing part of RH adjacent stamp. Cancelled by fine complete black Maltese Cross. Cat. £375. Price $365 PB12) GB 1840 1d Black, SG 2 lettered O-F. 4 large margin unplated example, cancelled by nice strike of red maltese cross. Cat. £375. Price $525 PB15) GB 1d 1840 Black SG2, plate 8, lettered J-G. Fault free 4 margin example with neat red maltese cross cancel. Cat. £525. Price $425

PM5) 50 Different Indochina, normally $30, one only at $25

PB16) GB 1840 1d Black, SG 2 lettered R-C. Nice 4 margin unplated example, cancelled by complete light strike of red maltese cross. Cat. £525. Price $495

PM7) Falkland Islands. Latest available on paper mixture, close clipped single paper noted some make up combinations for the new 31p local postage rate (up from 30p) 500g for $40.

PB17) GB 1840 1d Black SG2. Unplated 4 margin example, with indistinct Red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered E – D. Has a vertical crease to left of Queen’s Head. Cat. Minimum £375

PM10) Australia recent on paper mix from a brand new charity source in Canberra . All on single paper, some is clipped, some on torn paper. I would guess around 4000 to the kg. The current mix goes to early 2016 with a smattering of foreign and a fair amount of unfranked seen. Little if any in the way of high values spotted but definitely an unpicked mixture. 40kg currently available, and with a regular source promised. Price per 500g $49, 1kg for $89, 2kg for $169, 5kg for $395, 10kg for $759, 20kg for $1449. Post free on the 10 & 20kg parcels within Australia.

PB18) GB 1840 1d Black SG2. Lovely 4 margin example from plate 7 with neat Black Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered R – I Cat. £400 price $495 PB19) GB 1840 1d Black SG2. Great looking 4 margin example from plate 1 with Full centrally struck Bright Red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered K – F Cat. £375 price $595 PB20) GB 1840 1d Black SG2. Very nice looking 4 margin example from plate 2 with Full centrally struck Deepish Red Maltese Cross cancel and huge top margin. Lettered A – J Cat.

KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS & COINS Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693

JULY SALE GB59) GB 1881 1d pale lilac SG 171, fresh mint hinged cat. £225. Full perf. example centred to lower left. Price $129

£375 great looking stamp. Neatly filled pin hole above right hand letter square. Price $395 PB21) ) GB 1840 1d Black SG2. Very good looking 4 margin example from plate 2 with centrally struck Red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered R – I Cat. £375 price $525

GB58) GB 1883 2/6d Lilac, blued paper SG 175. Superb quality, mint hinged, well centred example, with full perfs. and fresh white gum. Cat. £6750, Very well priced at $2595

PB55) GB 1840 1d Blacks (2) Absolutely the worst you could possibly get in your worst nightmare! (No kidding!) Badly cut into. With a bit of luck you might be able to paste the two together to get one. Price $49 the two.

GB13b) GB 1883 5/- Rose SG 180, fine used. Lovely example with dated Hexagonal Duplex cancel of Threadneedle St. London, DE 17 97. Well centred with brilliant colour and full perfs. Cat. £250. Very Reasonably Priced $119 GB65) GB 1883 5/- Rose SG 180, mint hinged. Lovely example, well centred with good colour and full perfs. Cat. £1100. Price $595

Great Britain other issues GB2) GB 1847, 1/- Pale Green Embossed. SG 54. Fine 3 good margin example, 4 just touched at the top. Cancelled by Barred Numeral 41 (2 strikes) Cat. 1000 pounds. Well priced at under 15% cat. $249 th

GB66) GB 1883 10/- Ultramarine, SG 183, mint hinged. Lovely example, well centred with good colour and full perfs. Cat. £2250. Price $1475

GB48) GB 1854 – 7, 1d Red Brown, perf 16. SG 17 lettered C – F, well centred and with full perfs, lettered C – F. Mint with small part original gum, cat. £375, price $189

GB61) GB 1884 1.5d Lilac SG 188 fresh mint lightly hinged, lettered H - A / A – H. Full perf. example with good colour centred high. Cat. £125, price $79

GB49) GB 1858 – 74, 1d Red Plate 174, lettered C – B / B – C. Fresh mint unhinged with full perfs. SG 43, cat. £45 for hinged, price $55

GB62) GB 1884 2d Lilac SG 189 fresh mint lightly hinged. Full perf. example lettered T – J / J – T, with good colour well centred. Cat. £230, price $135

GB50) GB 1870, Halfpenny “Bantam” Plate 15, nice mint hinged with excellent centring and perfs. Lettered B – E / E - B Small dealer expertisation mark on reverse. SG 48, cat £175, well priced at $89

GB63) GB 1884 6d Dull Green SG 194 Fresh mint lightly hinged. Lettered M – J / J – M. Good colour full perf. example centred left. Has minor gum bend not visible from face. Cat. £625, price $285

GB81) GB 1865 – 73, 4d Vermilion, plate 12 SG 94 Mint unhinged, lettered C – G / G - C. Cat. £575 for hinged. Superb fresh premium quality stamp, price $675

GB64) GB 64 1/- Dull Green SG 196. Fresh mint lightly hinged. Lettered J - N / N – J. Good colour full perf. example centred to top left. Small amount of paper adherence at top from album page, not visible from face. Cat. £1600, price $685

GB5) GB 1870 4d Vermilion, plate 12, SG 94 very fine used, with light steel cds of Swindon FE 24 73. Lettered K - Q /Q - K. This is a fine full perf example with good colour. Cat. £75 Price $69 GB83) GB 1867 – 80, 1/- Green plate 5 fresh mint lightly hinged. SG 117, lettered G - E / E - G. Cat. £800. Well centred stamp of fine appearance, just a couple of pulled perfs at top. Price $279

GB68) GB 1887 Jubilee set of 14, fresh mint lightly hinged. (10d is unhinged) SG 197/214 Cat. £650, price $325 GB16) GB 1887 1/- Dull Green, SG 211 superb used. Well centred full perf. example with correct unwashed colour and fine centrally struck “thimble” cds of West Malvern 6.15 JY 26 99. Cat. £120 for well centred lightly used. Price $98

GB82) GB 1872/3, 6d Pale Buff plate 12, fresh mint hinged. Some very minor toning on a couple of perfs. at top. Lettered C - R / R - C. Very rare stamp to find n such fine condition. Full perf. example. SG 123 cat. £3400, price $1895

GB6) GB 1890 1/- Dull Green Govt. Parcels, SG 068, additionally ovpt. “Specimen” type 9, mint lightly hinged, fresh and well centred, with good perfs. Minimum cat. 300 pounds. Price $295

GB9) GB 1872, 6d Pale Buff, SG 123, wmk. Spray of Rose. Plate 11, lettered B – K / K - B, cancelled by centrally struck Dublin steel cds of JU 12 73. Lovely looking stamp with full perfs. Cat. £125, price $119 GB84) GB 1873 – 80, 2.5d Rosy Mauve White paper plate 2, lettered K – A / A – K. Mint lightly hinged. SG139. Nice fresh looking stamp with good colour and perfs. Cat. £650, price $429 GB52) GB 1873 – 80, 1/- Green Plate 13 fresh mint lightly hinged, well centred god perfs. example Lettered E – N / N – E. SG 150 cat. £650. Price $429

GB67) GB 1891 £1 Green Queen Victoria SG 121, mint lightly hinged. Stunning well centred full perf. example with fresh colour and gum. Once lightly hinged, this is almost impossible to find better! Some very minor gum creasing does not detract Cat. £4000 Price $3695. GB69) GB 1902 – 11 KEVII set of 15, fresh mint. SG between 215 – 314. Cat. Min. £675. Price $329 GB74) GB 1902 – 11 Chalky paper set of 9 to 1/-, fresh mint lightly hinged, Cat. between SG 223 – 259. Price $315

GB85) GB 1875 3d Rose SG 143, plate 16, mint lightly hinged, lettered G – G. Fresh looking example with good perfs. Cat. £450, price $339 GB4) GB 1876 5/- Rose, Telegraphs. Maltese Cross wmk, lettered D H from Plate 1. Cancelled with cds of Dundee FE 3 80. Well centred and with good perfs. Cat 110 pounds. Nice looking stamp. Price $89

GB75) GB 1911 KEVII Harrison perf. 15 x 14 set of 5, fresh mint lightly hinged. SG 279-286. Cat. . £130, price $119 GB71) 1905 2/6d KEVII Pale Dull Purple SG261. Magnificent lightly hinged example, with fresh white gum, full perfs. and perfect centring. Cat. £350 Price $295

GB53) GB 1880 -83, 2.5d Blue plate 23. Mint very lightly hinged. SG 157, lettered L – H/H – L. Cat. £450. Very fresh with great colour and full perfs., centred left. Price £229

GB70) 1905 2/6d KEVII Dull Purple SG262. Lightly hinged example, full perfs. and perfect centring.. £350, Price $275

GB54) GB 1880 – 83, 3d Rose plate 21. Mint lightly hinged. SG 158 lettered K – B / B – K. Cat. £500. Fresh well centred with full perfs. Price $329

GB72) 1905 5/- KEVII Deep Bright Carmine SG264. Magnificent lightly hinged example, with fresh white gum, full perfs. And perfect centring. Impossible to find better! perfect centring. Impossible to find better! Cat. £450 Price $415

GB60) GB 1880 – 83 3d on 3d & 6d on 6d Overprints. SG 159 & 162, mint hinged, the 3d being extremely fine. Lettered A – N / N – A and D – L /L – D respectively. Both full perfs. With reasonable centring for these. Cat. £1325. Price $659

GB73) 1902 10/- KEVII Ultramarine SG265. Magnificent lightly hinged example, with fresh gum, full perfs. and perfect centring. Impossible to find better! perfect centring. Impossible to find better! Cat. £1000 Price $1025

GB55) GB 1880 – 83, 4d Grey Brown plate 17, mint light hinge. SG 160, lettered J – H / H – J. Cat. £475. Fresh full perf. example, centred to lower left. Price $310 GB51) GB 1880-83, 6d Grey plate 17, mint lightly hinged, SG 161. Full perf nice looking stamp lettered G – H / H – G. Small tone spot to lower right. Cat. £425, cheaply priced at $89 GB57) GB 1880 – 81 Halfpenny, penny and penny halfpenny SG 165/167 mint, the 1d being unhinged. Good centring and perfs., cat.£340, price $135 GB56) GB 1880 – 8, 2d Pale Rose SG 168, mint lightly hinged. Fresh full perf. example centred right. Cat. £239

GB45) GB 1911 10d SG 309. Lovely mint lightly hinged example, well centred and good perfs. Cat. £95, price $69 GB76) GB 1913 Halfpenny Green Multiple Cypher, SG 397. Fresh lightly hinged example, perfectly centred and with full perfs. Unusually fine for this difficult stamp. Cat. £150, price $129 GB77) GB 1913 Waterlow Seahorses set of 4, fresh mint hinged. Lovely set to One Pound Green, SG 399 – 403, the 2/6d being the deeper shade. The Pound is particularly nice lightly hinged, and perfectly centred with full perfs. Cat. £5,725. Price $6995

Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.kevinmorgan.com.au www.stampnews.net.au

JULY SALE GB86) GB 1914 Royal Cypher set of 15, SG 351-396, fresh mint lightly hinged. Cat. £250, price $149 GB78) GB 1915 DLR Seahorses set of 3, fresh mint lightly hinged. Lovely set to 10/-, between SG 408 – 413, the 2/6d being the Seal Brown. Way above average for these. Cat. £4,375. Price $3375

Queensland BD237) Queensland 1860 1d Carmine-Rose, large star wmk SG1. Imperf with 4 margins, no faults. With Certificate. Price $1195 South Australia

GB13a) GB 1915 5/- Pale Rose Seahorse SG410. DLR printing, fine used cds example, well centred and with full perfs. Cat. £500. Nice looking example, and hard to find in this condition. Priced at just 30% cat. Price $249

LM137) Album page of Reprinted Imperf., Rouletted and perforated Chalon Heads. Values 1d to 1/-, all fresh with original gum. 20 stamps. Price $495

GB12) GB 1918 10/- Dull Grey-Blue Seahorse, SG 417. Fine used example with dated London cds. of 8 DE 32. Cat. £175. Full perf. well centred example with good colour. Price $79

Tasmania

GB79) GB 1918 Bradbury Seahorses set of 3, fresh mint lightly hinged. Lovely set to 10/-, between SG 414 – 417, the 2/6d being the Chocolate shade. Confirming dot in top margin on all three stamps. Way above average for these. Cat. £960. Price $749 GB80) GB 1918 Bradbury Seahorses set of 3, fresh mint lightly hinged. Lovely set to 10/-, between SG 414 – 417, the 2/6d being the Chocolate shade. No dot in top margin of all three stamps. Way above average for these. Cat. £960. Price $749 GB87) GB 1924 Block Cypher set of 12, SG 418-429, fresh mint lightly hinged. Cat. £110, price $75 GB88) GB 1925 Wembley pair, SG 432/33 mint unhinged. Fresh and with full perfs, cat. £55 for hinged, price $59 GB89) GB 1929 PUC set of 4, mint lightly hinged, SG 434/8. Cat. £765. The One Pound is particularly nice, once hinged with full perfs, well centred and no gum crackling. Price $859 GB90) GB 1934 Photogravure set of 11, SG 439 – 449, mint lightly hinged. Cat. £50, price $29GB91) GB 1939-48 “Square” High Values, mint unhinged. Very fine set, the 10/- Dark Blue being a top marginal example. SG 476 – 478c, cat. £425, price $415 GB11) GB 1948 Silver Wedding Pair SG493/4. Nice used pair, cat. £40, price $35 GB11A) As above, mint unhinged, price $39 GB8) GB 1951 Festivals High Values 2/6d – One Pound well centred mint unhinged. Some minor gum staining. SG 509/12 cat. £100. Very cheap at under 25% cat. Price $39 GB92) GB 1952 Tudor Crown Wmk. Wildings set of 17, mint unhinged, SG 515/31. Nice fresh mint unhinged set cat. £100, price $79 GB93) GB 1955 St. Edwards Crown Wmk. Wildings set of 18, mint unhinged, SG 515/31. Nice fresh mint unhinged set cat. £160, price $139 GB94) GB 1955 Waterlow Castles set of 4, mint lightly hinged. SG 536/9 cat. £250, price $59 GB96) GB 1959 Phosphor Graphite Wildings set of 8, mint unhinged. SG 599/609 cat. £100, price $76.50 GB97) GB 1959 Phosphor Graphite Wilding 2d Brown ERROR OF WATERMARK SG 605a, mint unhinged. Cat. £200, price $165 GB95) GB 1959 Phosphor Graphite Wilding 4.5d Chestnut SG 609, mint lightly hinged. Cat. £30, price $17.50 Australian States New South Wales DB102) NSW 1850 1d Reddish – Rose, no clouds, SG3. Decent looking 2 margin example, cancelled by barred numeral 63. Cat. £475 well priced at $249 DB99) NSW 1852 6d Van – dyke Brown SG73 with Plate Scratch. Nice 3 margin example with prominent plate scratch diagonally across Queen’s face. Cancelled by indistinct barred numeral. Very attractive specialist item. Cat. £250 as normal. Price $279 DB105) NSW 1890 2.5d Ultramarine Monogram block of 8 mint/mint unhinged. Rare block, with CP, GPrO NSW & 1890 Monograms. Fresh mint, with only 2 stamps lightly hinged at top. Some minor staining in selvedge, and perf separation to top left hand stamp hardly detract from fine appearance. SG 265, individually stamps cat. £128 as hinged unhinged would be at least double. Price $549

LM155) Tasmania 4d Courier, SG 5, Bright Red Orange. Superb 4 margin example with full lightly applied Barred Numeral 59 of Launceston. Cat. £1000. Stunning example which cannot be bettered. Price $1195 Victoria DB56) Victoria 1864 2d Violet SG 109 Imperforate! Not listed in SG, definitely big enough margins to be imperf. Nicely used with barred Numeral cancel. Imperf between vertical pair of the 1/- form this issue is Cat. at £6500. Price $495 BD514) Victoria £5 Black & Green SG 233, mint original gum, overprinted “Reprint”. Fresh full perf. example centred high. Fine appearance for this rarity, has creases at top left and right corners, hardly visible from face, and do not detract. A local dealer has similar without gum on offer for $975, price $875 BD404) Victoria 1885 £10 Lilac SG 279a, postally used with Melbourne Duplex cancel. Postally used is way scarcer than cto. Well centred for this and with good perfs. Price $495 Australia Kangaroos All of my Kangaroo stamps are accurately described and fairly priced according to condition, you may order with confidence that there are no hidden faults. K67) Australia Halfpenny Green Kangaroo Plate 2, CA Monogram single, mint lightly hinged ACSC 1zb. Centred left with a couple of nibbed perfs. at top. Very attractive piece, cat. $350, price $269 K61) Australia 1914 1d Red Kangaroo Die IIa, SG 2e, ACSC 4A Mint unhinged, cat. $125. Fresh well centred and with good perfs. Very cheap at $39 K62) Australia 1913 1st wmk. 2d Grey Kangaroo. Nice mint lightly hinged example with good perfs, centred a little to the left. Cat. $75, price $39 K65) Australia 1913 1st wmk. 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo. Nice mint unhinged hinged example with good centring and perfs. Has light gum bend not visible from front. Cat. $325, price $99 DB826) Australia 1913 3d Olive Kangaroo, Die I. Nice mint lightly hinged example with good perfs. Has light gum bend not visible from front. Cat. $250, price $119 K64) Australia 1913 1st wmk. 3d Olive Kangaroo, Die I. Nice mint lightly hinged example with good perfs. Has light overall gum toning not visible from front. Cat. $250, price $119 K59) Australia 1913 1st wmk. 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo. Wmk. Inverted. Mint lightly hinged, with good centring and perfs. Minor toning on reverse, not visible from front. Cat. $275, priced well at $125 K63) Australia 1913 4d Analine Orange Kangaroo. ACSC 15B Mint Unhinged. Lovely example, fresh gum, good centring and perfs. Cat $2750. Rarely offered. Price $1650 LM12) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo, “Kissprint”. Nice well centred example with full perfs, fresh mint very lightly hinged. Coastline appears doubled almost all around. Cat $250 as normal. Price $495 K58) Australia 1913 1st wmk. 6d Blue Kangaroo, ACSC 17C. Nice mint unhinged hinged example with good centring and perfs. Has very faint hardly visible toning to bottom left perf, otherwise a perfect stamp. Cat. $875, price $349 DB777) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo 1st wmk SG 12. Nice used example with corner cds. Good perfs centred a little to lower left. ACSC 35A Cat $250. Keenly priced at $119 DB775) Australia 1913 2/- Dark Brown Kangaroo 1st wmk SG 12. Nice used example with Blue Brisbane Registered Oval cancels. Good perfs, centred a little to the upper right. ACSC

KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS & COINS Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693

JULY SALE 35B Cat $300. Well priced at $119

example has been submitted to the ACSC for future listing. Price $3950

K29) Australia 1913 10/- Grey & Pink 1st wmk Kangaroo, with neat Telegraph Puncture. Full perfs, fresh colour. Centred to lower right. Retail for normal would be around $1000. Price $295

K6) Australia 10/- 3rd Watermark, Overprinted with Type B "SPECIMEN". Mint Never Hinged, original gum. A very clean and fresh looking stamp with unrecorded variety “break in coastline” at Bight. Cat for hinged is $600, so logically 3 x = $1800 for unhinged given the cat. prices for normal of $2850 unhinged and $950 hinged. Well centred and with some slightly fluffy perfs, this is excellent value at $875.

K30) Australia 1913 One Pound Brown and Blue Kangaroo, Telegraph Puncture. Very scarce to find. Centred low, and a few perf faults. Normal in fine used would be $1800 plus. Price only $295.

K32) Australia 1919 Kangaroo £1 Brown & Blue 3rd wmk, with Small Telegraph Puncture. Well centred and full perf. example with neat NSW cds of 1919. ACSC 52 cat $2500 as normal, price $449

K7) Australia 1913 High value Kangaroos 10/- - £2 overprinted Specimen SG 14-16S. ACSC 47x, 51x & 55x. Lovely set, with bright colours and good perfs. Better centring than is usually seen for these issues. Mint unhinged (I suspect these have been re-gummed at some stage), however if so it is very well done. Cat. $13,500 as unhinged, and would sell at around $6000 if correct. My price $2250, sold “as is”

LM66) AUSTRALIA 1919 Kangaroo £1 Light Brown (Bistre) & pale blue. 3rd pale blue. Fine used well centred and full perf. example with full “socked on nose” Adelaide 12 JA 23 cds. SG 44b cat £1800. ACSC 52D cat $2500. Price $2475

K8) Australia 1913 £1 Brown and Blue Kangaroo, ovpt. Specimen, SG 15S, ACSC 51x. Genuine original gum example, with light hinge. Good perfs. and quite good centring for this issue. Cat $950, price $750.

DB303) Australia 1918 3rd wmk £1 Chocolate and Milky Blue Kangaroo. Harrison Printing, ACSC 52F. Superb perfectly centred and full perf example, with Melbourne cds cancel. Scarcest of all shades for this issue, the majority being used for NWPI overprints. Cat. $4500, price $2985

K57) Australia 1915 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo 2nd wmk. mint lightly hinged. Well centred with good perfs. Gum very lightly toned and with 1 nibbed perf. at left. Cat. $125, priced very cheaply at $45

K41) Australia 1924 3rd wmk £1 Grey SG 75 Mint Very Lightly Hinged. ACSC 53A, cat $1000. Well centred with good perfs, fresh evenly toned gum. Price $595

K56) Australia 1915 9d Violet Kangaroo 2nd wmk. mint lightly hinged. Centred a little to the right with good perfs. Gum lightly toned and with 1 toned perf. at top. Cat. $350, priced to sell at $125 K57) Australia 1915 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo 2nd wmk. mint lightly hinged. Well centred with good perfs. Gum very lightly toned and with 1 nibbed perf. at left. Cat. $125, priced very cheaply at $45

LM153) Australia 1924 3rd wmk £1 Grey SG 75 cto with gum unhinged. BW 53w, cat $750, unhinged though is very scarce, price $895 LM152) Australia 1924 3rd wmk £1 Grey SG 75S, ovpt. Specimen Type C2. Early state of shaved P. Fresh mint unhinged well centred and with full gum. BW 53xf not catalogued as unhinged, but using the same formula as the normal type C should be $2275. Price $1495 K31) Australia 1924 3rd wmk £1 Grey Kangaroo, with Small Telegraph Puncture. Nice cds used with good centring and perfs. Slightly blunt top right corner mentioned only for accuracy. Retail as fine used $425, price $149

K55) Australia 1915 1/- Green Kangaroo 2nd wmk. mint lightly hinged. Centred to top right with good perfs. Has interesting skipped perf at bottom left. Minor mum toning. Cat. $375, priced well at a third catalogue, $125 K66) Australia 1917 2.5d Indigo 3rd wmk. Kangaroo, mint unhinged. Lovely well centred, full perf example. Cat. $125, price $69 DB796) Australia 1918 6d Pale Greyish Violet Dull Blue Kangaroo Subs. Cliché. 3rd wmk SG 38ba (shade) , ACSC 19Gja, Nicely centred and with good perfs and 2 x partial Sydney cds cancels. cat $3750. Hard stamp to find, price $1950

K46) Australia 1929 Sml. Multi. Wmk., 6d Chestnut Kangaroo Mint Lightly Hinged. Lovely well centred fresh full perfs. example, cat. $50 cheap stamp at $29 LM15) Australia 1929 Sml. Multi. Wmk., 6d Chestnut “Kissprint “of left frame MUH. Super Post Office Fresh left marginal example, well centred and full perfs. Unrecorded variety. Price $249 K47) Australia 1929 Sml. Multi. Wmk., 9d Pale Violet Kangaroo Mint Unhinged. Lovely nicely centred fresh full perfs. example, cat. $375 very cheap at $169

K50) Australia 1923 6d Deep Chestnut Kangaroo 3rd wmk, ACSC 21C. Nice mint unhinged example well centred and with good perfs. Has skipped perfs. at top creating a larger than usual stamp. Cat. $250, priced at just a half catalogue. $125

K45) Australia 1929 Sml. Multi. Wmk., 1/- Blue Green Kangaroo Mint Unhinged. Brilliant well centred fresh full perfs. example, cat. $300 probably underpriced at $149

K54) Australia 1918 9d Violet Kangaroo, 3rd wmk Die IIb. Nice mint lightly hinged example with perfect perfs, centred a tad high. Has light overall gum toning and one toned perf. at left, not visible from front. Cat. $125, cheap at $37.50

K44) Australia 1929 Sml. Multi. Wmk., 2/- Maroon Kangaroo Mint Lightly Hinged. Nicely centred full perfs. example, gum with light overall toning. cat. $300 very well priced at just $79

K53) Australia 1918 1/- Blue Green Kangaroo, 3rd wmk Die II. Mint lightly unhinged example centred a little left, with full perfs. Has light gum toning. Cat. $125 cheaply priced at $39 K52) Australia 1918 1/- Blue Green Kangaroo, 3rd wmk Die IIb. Mint unhinged example with Sideways Wmk. Centred a little left, with full perfs. Has some overall gum toning. Cat. at $200 for Hinged, Priced well at $99

DB496) Australia 1929 Small Multiple Wmk. 5/- Grey & Yellow Orange Kangaroo, SG 111 ACSC 45A. Absolutely superb cto example without gum. Bright vibrant colour with full perfs. and perfectly centred. Neat top left corner cancel. Cat. $250. Price $195 DB499) Australia 1929 Small Multiple Wmk. 5/- Greyish- Black & Yellow Orange Kangaroo. Perf OS ACSC 45Bba. Lovely commercially used example. Good strong colour with good perfs. and well centred. Cancelled by partial Perth cds. Postally used examples are much scarcer than cto. Cat. $250, price $185

K51) Australia 1916 2/- Brown Kangaroo 3rd wmk, mint lightly hinged. Well centred and with good perfs. Has tiny natural paper inclusion, and one toned perf. at top, both hardly noticeable from front. Cat. $450, price just $139 K49) Australia 1924 2/- Maroon Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Mint lightly hinged example with excellent centring and perfs. Light overall gum toning. Cat. $300, priced cheaply at $87.50 K39) Australia 1918 10/- Grey & Pale Analine Pink 3rd wmk. Kangaroo ACSC 48E, mint lightly hinged. Cat. $750. Stamp is well centred with good perfs, fluffy along bottom. A couple of perfs. have very minor toning not visible from face. Price $479 DB325) Australia 1918 10/- Grey & Deep Analine Pink “Kissprint”. Harrison printing mint with light hinge, nice fresh gum. Has prominent “Kissprint” of frame clearly visible on map, at top, to right of Kangaroo and clear doubling of shading to left of Kangaroo’s head. Centred to the lower right, and with some short perfs at base. This is believed unique, and is only recorded in ACSC as Perf. OS used. (ACSC 48Bc) at $3000. I did sell a mint OS example through auction as couple of years ago in Melbourne for $3750 plus buyers’ premium. This

K38) Australia 1929 Small Multiple Wmk. 5/- Greyish- Black & Yellow Orange Kangaroo. ACSC 45B Lovely looking mint lightly hinged example. Perfect perfs. and centring. Cat. $400. Has tiniest tone spot barely visible from face. Price $275 K2) Australia 1929 Small Multiple Wmk. 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, fine used dated Melbourne cds 4NO31, and with variety “Very short Spencer’s Gulf” ACSC49 (D) f, cat $1100, price $695 K37) Australia 1929 Small Multiple Wmk. 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, mint unhinged. Centred lower left and has a couple of nibbed perfs. Facially quite attractive, but gum is toned. Cat $3000, price just $695 DB308) Australia 1929 Small Multiple Wmk. £2 Grey & Rose – Crimson Kangaroo. Nice Ovpt. Specimen example, well centred and with full perfs., mint lightly hinged and with fresh white gum. Has unreported varieties, broken top to 2 in value circle and red line at bottom left of map. Cat. $900, price $789

Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.kevinmorgan.com.au www.stampnews.net.au

JULY SALE K43) Australia 1932 C of A Wmk., 6d Chestnut Kangaroo Mint Unhinged. Nicely centred fresh full perfs. example, cat. $80, my price just $45

G15) Australia 1927 2d Red Brown KGV Sml. Multi. Wmk perf. 14, SG 89 mint unhinged. Well centred with good perfs. Has light overall gum toning. Advertised retail $150, price $74

K42) Australia 1932 C of A Wmk., 9d Violet Kangaroo Mint Lightly Hinged. Well centred, especially for this stamp which is usually off centre, full perfs. example, cat. $70, well worth $39

G16) Australia 1927 3d Blue KGV Sml. Multi. Wmk perf. 14, SG 90 mint unhinged. Centred left with good perfs. Has light overall gum toning and a few toned perfs. at right, not visible from front . Advertised retail $70, price only $17.50 advertised retail $70, price only $17.50

K43) Australia 1932 C of A Wmk., 2/- Maroon Kangaroo Die II, SG 134 Mint Unhinged. Nicely centred fresh full perfs. example, cat. $20, my price just $12 K36) Australia 1932 5/- C of A Wmk. Grey & Yellow - Orange Kangaroo, Mint Unhinged. Lovely well centred, full perf example, Cat. $1500. Some minor gum skips do not detract. Price $749 LM150) Australia 1935 £1 Grey C of A wmk Kangaroo, SG 137S, BW 54x. Vertical pair Mint Unhinged, ovpt. Specimen type D. Multiples are rare and a block of 4 is cat. $1500 for hinged. This pair is very fresh unhinged, with full perfs. and well centred. Using the formula for a mint unhinged single the block of 4 should cat. at $2250 for unhinged. As a pair it is worth approx. 40% of the block price = $900. Price $765…the same price that the late Simon Dunkerley paid me for a similar pair in 2005. K35) Australia 1935 One Pound Grey Kangaroo, mint lightly hinged. Well centred and with full perfs. Cat. $1000. Price $675 LM149) Australia 1934 £2 Grey – Black and Rose Crimson C of A wmk, SG 138S, BW 54x. Horizontal pair Mint Unhinged, ovpt. Specimen type D. Multiples are rare and a block of 4 is cat. $3500. This is a very fresh unhinged pair , with full perfs. and well centred. As a pair it is worth approx. 40% of the block price = $1400. Price $1275 LM148) Australia 1934 £2 Grey – Black and Rose Crimson C of A wmk, SG 138S. Mint unhinged with variety “Collar on Roo” BW 58Vr. Nice mint unhinged full perf example, centred left. The normal stamp in mint unhinged cat. $15000, and with this variety an extra 50% = $22,500. The Specimen Mint unhinged is $225, and logically the variety adds 50% to around $350. Cheap buy at $315 Australia KGV Heads G1) Australia 1913 KGV 1d Red Engraved Mint Unhinged “Kissprint” ACSC 59ca. Post Office fresh and a much more prominent example of the Kissprint than is usually seen. Not priced as unhinged, but the hinged price of $1000 indicates that unhinged should be $2500. This stamp is well centred and with full perfs. A much lesser example has been noted on another dealer’s website at $1300. Price $1500 G2) Australia 1918 5d Chestnut KGV Single wmk. Inverted. Mint light hinge, with good perfs. Gum is toned and with a couple of minor gum thins. Nevertheless a scarce stamp. ACSC 123a cat. $1000. Cheaply priced at $295 DB491) Australia 1920 1/4d Turquoise KGV Single wmk. Mint unhinged Block of 4 perf OS, with variety “Thick 1 at right” and grossly misperfed showing parts of additional stamps at right. Cat $1500. Lovely fresh condition. Supplied with certificate. Price $1150 G19) Australia 1920 1/4d Turquoise KGV Single wmk. Mint unhinged, centred lower right. Fresh full perf example, advertised retail $650, my price just $295 G20) Australia 1920 1/4d Turquoise KGV Single wmk. Mint light hinge, centred left. Full perf example, minor toning to a few perfs along top, not visible from the face. advertised retail $200, my price just $65 G3) Australia 1921 4d Violet, SG 64 KGV Single wmk mint unhinged. Well centred, full perf example. Has light overall gum toning. Advertised retail $40, price just $14

G14) Australia 1927 4d Olive KGV Sml. Multi. Wmk perf. 14, SG 91 fresh mint unhinged. Centred left with good perfs. Advertised retail $300, price only $149 G13) Australia 1927 4.5d Violet KGV Sml. Multi. Wmk perf. 14, SG 92 mint unhinged. Centred to top right, with good perfs. Has light overall gum toning. Advertised retail $80, price $26.50 G12) Australia 1927 3d Blue Die 2 KGV Sml. Multi. Wmk perf. 13.5 x 12.5, SG 110b mint unhinged. Centred to left, with good perfs. Has very light overall gum toning. Advertised retail $60, price $29.50 G11) Australia 1927 4d Yellow Olive KGV Sml. Multi. Wmk perf. 13.5 x 12.5, SG 102 mint unhinged. Centred a little to the right, with good perfs. Fresh gum with toning to one perf. not visible from the front. Advertised retail $80, price $39. G10) Australia 1927 4.5d Violet KGV Sml. Multi. Wmk perf. 13.5 x 12.5, SG 102 mint unhinged. Centred a little to the right, with good perfs. Fresh gum with very light overall toning. Advertised retail $160, price $79. G9) Australia 1927 5d Brown KGV Sml. Multi. Wmk perf. 13.5 x 12.5, SG 103a, mint unhinged. Centred to upper right, with good perfs. Fresh gum with very light overall toning. Advertised retail $110, price $54. G6) Australia 1931/36 3d Deep Blue KGV C of A Wmk, ACSC 109C, SG 128, mint unhinged. Centred to left, with good perfs. Fresh gum with very light overall toning. Advertised retail $75, price $37.50 G7) Australia 1931/36 4d Olive KGV C of A Wmk, SG 129, mint unhinged. Well centred, with good perfs. Fresh gum with very light overall toning. Light gum crease not visible from front. Advertised retail $45, price $22 G8) Australia 1931/36 5d Brown KGV C of A Wmk, ACSC 109C, SG 130, mint unhinged. Centred to right, with good perfs. Fresh gum.. Advertised retail $35, price $22.50 G5) Australia 1932 1/4d Turquoise KGV, C of A wmk. Mint unhinged. Full perf. fresh gum example centred left. Small crease at top left corner. Advertised retail $400, price for this one just $129 Australia Pre- Decimal issues BD439) Australia 1913 6d Claret Engraved Kookaburra, mint unhinged. Fresh well centred with full perfs. Just a couple of very lightly toned perfs, not visible form the front. Price $149 DB774) Australia 1928 3d Blue Engraved Kookaburra, reprint of the Imperf Minisheet ACSC 133MSb. Cat. $350,000. On thin card, un-numbered. Price $29 LM11) Australia 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge 5/- Green, SG 143 Mint Unhinged. Well centred and with full perfs, price on these is tightening now, and the SG catalogue price has risen again. Most dealers are now quoting around $1450 to $1500. Price $1350 BD437) Australia 1931 1/- Large Lyrebird, mint unhinged. Nice example with full perfs, however gum is toned. Advertised retail $100, price $49 BD438) Another example as above, gum somewhat less toned, centred lower right price $49

G4) Australia 1922 4d Pale Blue, SG 69b KGV Single wmk mint unhinged. Well centred, full perf example. Has light overall gum toning. Advertised retail $350, price just $115

BD434) Australia 1934 MacArthur 2d Dark Hills, mint unhinged. Well centred and with full perfs, advertised retail $25, my price $19

G18) Australia 1924 4d Yellow Olive, SG 80a KGV Single wmk mint unhinged. Nicely centred, full perf example. Advertised retail $100, price just $59

BD435) Australia 1934 MacArthur 9d, mint unhinged. Fresh nice looking example. Retail $100, price $69

G17) Australia 1924 4.5d Violet, SG 81 KGV Single wmk mint unhinged. Nicely centred, full perf example. Has overall gum toning. Advertised retail $75, price just $24.50

BD436) Australia 1934 Victoria Centenary 1/- Perf. 11.5 mint unhinged. Well centred example with full perfs. and fresh gum. Advertised retail $125, price $110

G21) Australia 1926 1.5d Pale Red Slurred Print on Translucent Paper. Small Multi. Wmk perf 14 KGV Head, ACSC 91Daac. Mint unhinged example. Has full perfs. Centred right. A very fine example of both varieties on the one stamp. Price $149

BD444) Australia 1934 Victoria Centenary set of 3, perf 10.5 Mint Lightly Hinged. Well centred and good perfs. Advertised retail $50, price $39 BD405) Australia 1934 Hermes double globe, no watermark. Stunningly fresh mint

KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS & COINS Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693

JULY SALE unhinged and unfolded gutter block of 6. Well centred and with full perfs. Very rare to see unfolded gutters of this. Price $749

following day. Scarce survivor. Price $110 BD515) Victoria 1857 small cover bearing 6d Dull Orange Woodblock 4 margin example, tied by barred Numeral 4 of SANDHURST (renamed BENDIGO) and Red cds “Paid 5 SP 1857” to Essex, UK. Fine and attractive, flap torn on opening. Price $195

BD442) Australia 1937 NSW Sesquicentenary set mint unhinged. Nice looking set, advertised retail $30, my price $19 BD441) Australia 1940 AIF set of 4, mint unhinged. Fresh well centred with good perfs. Price $32

APH2) New South Wales, 1908 A SUPERB condition advertising cover from Donald Ross & Co. noted seller of horse Castrator equipment - To Jas Hatrick & Co in London who also sold Surgical Veterinary equipment - This is a COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA cover, as we Federated in 1901. A HIGHLY sought after era these days. And covers from over 100 years back are scarce from here. Clear "London May 16 – 08” arrival cancel on back. Also a brilliant cover for anyone collecting HORSES and related areas. The ½d used on any foreign cover is unusual, as the 2½d stamp was issued for this purpose. These are the scarce FINAL watermark 1907 issue stamps SG 353/354 Cat “From £125 on cover” Price $179

BD440) Australia 1948 Arms High Values, set of 4 to Two Pounds. Fresh mint unhinged set, cat. $325. Regular retail $250, this set a bit off centre except for the 5/- so only $175. BD433) Australia 1949 Robes One Pound Thin Paper, mint unhinged. Fresh well centred and with full perfs. Price $125 Australia First Day Covers LM86) Australia 1930 Sturt pair on small plain typewritten fdcs. Each with neat Stones Corner Qld. Cds of 2JE30. Very clean and fresh. Cat $200, Price $139

LM123) Australia 1915 Prisoner of War mail. Small envelope addressed to Red Cross Geneva Bearing 1d Red KGV, SG 21 tied by Melbourne cds of 23 MR 15 and with Red Censor tape at top and left. Underpaid by 1.5d and with Hexagonal T10c on face. Has arrival datestamp of Geneva on reverse of 27 IV 15. Scarce item in great condition, price $355

LM93) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith set on registered official FDC & First Flight Australia – UK Cover AAMC 181. Signed by Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. Each stamp with Elizabeth St. Melbourne registered cds of 19MR31. Arrival backstamp of 27 AP 31, Sutton Coldfield, England. Fantastic piece of Australian history. Price $315

LM124) Australia 1915 Prisoner of War Mail small envelope to Red Cross Geneva. Bears SG20 halfpenny green & 2 x SG 21 1d Red KGV in differing shades. All tied by cds cancels of Maryborough Vic. Of 25 SE 15 and with Red London WC Official Paid cds of 3 NO 15. Also oval double ring “PRISONERS OF WAR INFORMATION BUREAU” cachet with KGV Crown at centre in black. Also Opened by Censor label in red at left and London WC NO 2 15 arrival machine cancel on reverse. Very clean and attractive. Price $345

HERE WE HAVE A RANGE OF “ACCIDENTAL” FIRST DAY COVERS, COMMERCIALLY USED ON DAY OF ISSUE. These have become very popular in recent years. LM91) Australia 1937 Amazing “accidental” fdc of the 1d Green & 2d Red KGVI Die I definitives. Airmail registered cover from South Melbourne to Warrant Officer 1st class of the Royal Engineers at Aldershot UK, bearing no less than 11 x 1d & 14 x 2d values to make 3/3d. Double rate plus 3d Registration. Cancelled by South Melbourne cds of 10 MY 37 also Melbourne Registered cds of the same date, together with Aldershot arrival registered oval cancel of 24 MY 37. Price $135

DB340) Australia 1918 small Censored cover to USA. Bears 2.5d kangaroo 3rd wmk, tied by Sydney JA 28 1918 machine cancel and part cds. Neat and clean with “Passed by censor” label in purple on cream. First I have seen in this colour Small tear at top does not detract. Cat. $120 on cover. Price $72

DB751) Australia 1950 2.5d Red KGVI Sideface, “accidental” first day cover on small envelope addressed to Casterton, Vic. Cancelled by 12AP50 cds of Brighton, Vic. Price $39 DB747) Australia 1954 3.5d Black Swan, W.A. Cent. “accidental” first day cover on small envelope addressed to Fairfield Hosptial Vic. Cancelled by Machine cancel cds of Sth. Melbourne 2 AUG 1954 Has been inscribed by a previous owner “First Day Cover “ in black ball point. Price $29 DB749) Australia 1962 5d Christmas, “accidental” first day cover on small envelope addressed to The Basin, Vic. Cancelled by 17 OCT 1962 Melbourne 3 line Slogan “PLEASE POST BEFORE FOUR” Price $29 DB750) Australia 1962 5d Comm. Games, “accidental” first day cover on small envelope addressed to The Basin, Vic. Cancelled by 1 NOV 1962 indistinct Footscray West 3 line Slogan. Has been inscribed by a previous owner “First Day Cover “ in black ball point. Price $29

DB748) Australia 1963 5d Red Cross, “accidental” first day cover on small envelope addressed to Esso Standard Oils, Melbourne. Cancelled by clear strike of 8MY63 Mirboo North cds. Price $29 DB745) Australia 1963 5d Green QEII, “accidental” first day cover on small envelope addressed to Esso Standard Oils, Melbourne. Cancelled by 9 OCT 1963 Melbourne 4 line Slogan “SUPPORT LORD MAYOR’S HOSPITAL APPEAL” Price $29

LM13) Victoria 1854 6d Dull Orange Imperf Woodblock on cover, SG 32a. Neat small cover Melbourne to Dublin via ship Colombia. Nice 4 margin stamp affixed inverted, possibly to warn of bad news. Cancelled by barred numeral 1, and with arrival stamp MR 16 1858. Price $395 LM87) NSW 1855 small entire Sydney – Maitland NSW, bearing 2d Dark Blue Laureate, SG 54. Tied by barred cancel of Sydney the stamp has a huge margin at top coming from the top of the sheet. Left and lower margins are full, but torn away at top right. Reverse bears Sydney Circular Handstamp of JA 17 1855 and Maitland unframed Oval Handstamp of the

LM94) Australia 1922 small Orient Line cover bearing 2d Red KGV Single Wmk, cancelled by Paquebot machine cancel of Toulon 22 IV 22, addressed to Cambridge UK. Reverse bears the logo of “Orient Line of Royal Mail Steamships. Clean, attractive and rare! Price $110 LM1) Australia 1924 3d Die IIb 3rd wmk on small cover to Switzerland. Neat and clean Tied by Sydney machine cancel cds of JA 23 1924. Cat. $200 on cover, price $119 DB514) Australia 1924 small advertising cover for Carborundum Sydney agent, Roy Miller. Bears 2 x 1.5d green single wmk KGV and addressed to Carborundum head office in New Jersey. Neat Indian Chief in Headdress Logo. Cancelled by Sydney machine cancel of FE 6 1924. Nice clean cover, price $45

DB744) Australia 1963 5d Green Burley Griffin, “accidental” first day cover on small window envelope. Cancelled by 8 MAR 1963 Melbourne large type slogan for the Royal Visit “Royal Visit E II R” Price $29

Australia & States, Postal History and covers.

LM125) Australia 1919 small cover to France bearing 1d Red & 1.5d Brown KGV heads, cancelled by cds of Collingwood Vic. 22 AU 19. Underpaid (deficient of the Halfpenny War Tax) and with framed hexagonal T 10c handstamp and bearing horiz. Pair of 5c French Postage Dues, Yvert 28 tied by Arcachon receiving cds. Lovely example of underpaid mail. Price $390

LM136) Australia 1926 Small Registered cover, Sydney to Grenoble, France. Bears horizontal pair of 3d Blue KGV Single wmk. Die 1a type A, ACSC 105C. Cancelled by Registered Sydney cds of 17-NO-26 and has “Rats Tail R” Sydney NSW Red Reg. Label No. A (handstamp in violet) 1033. Reverse bears arrival cds of Grenoble 19 – 12- 26. Single stamp on cover cat. $180. Rare survivor in nice condition. Two insignificant tears at top mentioned only for accuracy. Correct rate of 3d Postage and 3d Registered applied. Price $215 DB794) Australia 1927 Small Gordon & Gotch Advertising Cover to USA. Bears 3d Deep Blue KGV small multi wmk. Perf. 14 Type B, ACSC 105B cancelled by neat full cds of Melbourne 15JE27. Neatly repaired tear at left does not detract. Cat. $180 on cover. Price $129 APH1) Australia 1927 Advertising cover for John McCabe & Sons North Melbourne Vic. Bearing horiz. Strip of 3 of the 1d Green KGV No Watermark, to Hamburg. Cancelled by cds of Melbourne 24 MY 27, and received Boxed Rectangle 29 JUN 1927 in purple on face. Cat at $150 for solo use on cover, this is a very scarce multiple cover. Price $129 DB778) Australia 1928 small cover Sydney to Holland. Bears 3d Blue Engraved Kookaburra tied by Sydney 3 line Slogan of 30 NOV 1928 “ADDRESS MAIL TO PRIVATE BOX NUMBER IT EXPEDITES DELIVERY” Cat. $100 on cover, price $69 LM7) Australia 1930 Registered cover to NZ. Bears Halfpenny & 3d KGV plus 1.5d Sturt. Tied by Registered Sydney cds of 4 NO 30. The 3d alone cat. $100 on cover. Price $59

Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.kevinmorgan.com.au www.stampnews.net.au

JULY SALE LM133) Australia 1931 small Commercial Airmail Registered First Flight Cover to Holland, bearing 3d Green Airmail, 3d Blue Kingsford Smith, 1/4d Turquoise KGV sml. Multi. wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5 and 2/- Maroon Kangaroo same wmk. The 1/4d & 2/- cat. $1500 and $300 respectively on cover. All cancelled by Camberwell Vic. Cds of 21 MY 31 and with Camberwell Reg. Label No. 7051. Reverse bears the oval Violet Melbourne to Batavia Cachet, plus Melbourne reg. cds. Also of 21 MY 31 and the same of Sydney for the following day. Arrival cds of Heerenhoek, Zeeland on 6.VI.31. Correct franking for this, with 3/7d Airmail postage plus 3d Registered. First Flight AAMC cat. No. 205. Price $995 DB341) Australia 19 NO 31 Registered Elizabeth St., Melbourne 1st Flight Official cover. Bears 6d Brown Airmail, horizontal strip of 3, ovpt. OS. To Clerk to the Justices, City Police Courts, Liverpool U.K. Elizabeth St. is where many of the Melbourne legal fraternity have their offices, and so this is likely to be Official commercial mail. The OS stamp is cat. singly at $275 on cover. Scarce piece, price $245 LM2) Australia 1932 small airmail cover to “British Dental Journal”. 8d Airmail rate bearing 2d Red KGV and 6d Chestnut Kangaroo sml. Multi. Wmk. Neat clean cover. Price $165 LM6) Australia 1932 2d & 3d KGV & 6d Chestnut Kangaroo all sml. wmk, on airmail front to London. Tied by Sydney Airmail cds of 4AU32With T40k in red crayon, plus 4d F.B. manuscript, with 4d Greenish Grey GB Postage Due tied by cds. Scarce piece for collectors of taxed covers. Price $89 LM118) Australia 1933 6d Kingsford Smith, solo use on small Registered cover to Canada, paying 3d surface mail postage and 3d registration fee. Tied by Footscray Vic. Cds of 14FE33 with reverse cds of Melbourne Registered 15FE33 and Calgary receiving cds of MR 13 33. Solo use on cover is very scarce for this stamp and is the first I have owned. Catalogue is way out of whack for this. Price $195 DB521) Australia 1935 Lovely illustrated advertising cover for James Marsh & Sons, North Melbourne “Manufacturers of tin canisters & cardboard containers” addressed locally to Dalgety & Co. Ltd. Franked by 2d Red KGV and cancelled by Melbourne 3 line slogan “ INCLUDE POSTAL DISTRICT NUMBER IN MELBOURNE SUBURBAN ADDRESSES” Very clean and neat. Price $63 DB520) Australia 1936 Illustrated Airmail Advertising cover. J. Kennon & Sons Pty. Ltd. Richmond, Melbourne. “Wool, Hide & Skin Merchants.” Bears 1/6d Hermes cancelled by Ship Mail Room cds of Melbourne 29DE36, and sent to the UK. Cover has been folded, with a few tone spots & a little World weary, nevertheless attractive and scarce. Price $48 DB507) Australia 1937 Small Airmail cover, Perth – West Java. Dual reign cover Bears 1d Green QM Die I, 3d Blue S.A. Centenary and 5d Chestnut KGV to make 9d rate. Cancelled by cds of Perth 29MY37 and with arrival cds of Sukubami 5.6.37. Scarce destination. Price $89 LM117) Australia 1938 small Taxed Airmail cover to BMW Works, Germany. Bears 3d Blue KGVI Die 1a plus 1/6d double globe Hermes cancelled by G (eelong?) Vic slogan “Say it by Telephone” of 8 APR 38. Face bears Greek transit marking and oval T with blue crayon tax fee in centimes. Reverse has transit machine cds of Athens for 11 V 38, indicating that it was sent Seamail. Interesting cover, price $110 DB523) Australia 1941 Military Mails. 2nd Bde. H.Q.P.O. P2 clean strike cds of 19MY41 on small Salvation Army Red Shield Cover, addressed to Barclays Bank Cairo, Egypt. Bears Violet triangular censor cachet No. 3447, and reverse arrival cds of Cairo 23 MAY 1941. Nice clean cover. Price $54 DB509) Australia 1945 small Registered censor cover to USA. Bears 1d Brown – Purple QM & 5.5d Gloucester, cancelled by cds of Glenbrook, NSW 13AP45. Has “Opened by Censor” tape with red text, and diamond shape Censor cachet in Violet No. 733. Neat and attractive, with various arrival stamps on reverse. Price $36 DB511) Australia 1940s/50s Long Airmail Advertising cover from University of Melbourne, typed address to “Curator of Reptiles” San Diego Natural History Society. Bears 1958 5/Arms plus 1/- No Wmk Lyrebird, cancelled by cds of Carlton Vic, date unclear. Great example of a triple rate cover. Price $49 LM101) Australia 1954 Korean War Military cover, to NZ Gunner. Unstamped services missions printed cover with cds of Aust. Unit Postal Stn. 495 (Japan) dated 28 JE 54 to NZ Artillery Gunner Korea. After some debate, on 26 July 1950, the Government of New Zealand announced it would raise a volunteer military force to serve with UN forces in Korea. The idea was opposed initially by the Chief of the General Staff, Major General Keith Stewart, who did not believe the force would be large enough to be self-sufficient. His opposition was ignored and the government rose what was known as Kayforce, a total of 1,044 men selected from among volunteers. 16th Field Regiment, Royal New Zealand Artillery and support elements arrived later during the conflict from New Zealand. The force arrived at Pusan

on New Year's Eve and on 21 January joined the British 27th Infantry Brigade. The New Zealanders immediately saw combat and spent the next two and a half years taking part in the operations (most notably the Battle of Kapyong and the First Battle of Maryang San) which led the United Nations forces back to and over the 38th Parallel (with the NZ naval vessels being especially active in the inner Han River estuary),[1] later recapturing Seoul in the process. This is a very scarce survivor in fine condition. Price $265 MY5) Cocos Keeling Is. 1963 1/- Green definitive pair SG4. Small airmail cover to USA, used Sydney to Maine. Scarce mainland usage. Price $29 APH4) Australia 1970 Small Airmail Envelope bearing 30c Qantas solo use, RIGHT HAND CORNER EXAMPLE to Germany, cancelled by machine cancel of Chester Hill, NSW 2162 with cds 26 NO 1970 and UNUSUAL 5 line slogan “PLEASE POST - EARLY - BEFORE FOUR O’CLOCK – BEFORE - FOUR O’CLOCK. Scarce solo use. Fine and fresh cover. Price $65 APH5) Australia 1960 Picture Postcard with coloured photo of Macquarie St. Sydney, bearing 1/- Platypus, solo use SEAMAIL to Leaminster Mass. USA. Cancelled by Box Machine cancel of Sydney 7 MCH 1960 and with 3 line slogan “PROMINENT - HOUSE NUMBERS – HELP EVERYONE” Fine and fresh, scarce solo use underpaying by 2d the Airmail rate for which the 1/2d Thylacine is most commonly seen. Price $98 APH6) Australian Antarctic Territory, 1948 small seamail registered commercial cover from MacQuarie Island to Waterloo, Iowa, USA. Bearing 3.5d Newcastle and vertical strip of 3 1d Princess Elizabeth, to make 6.5d. Cancelled by cds of MacQuarie Is.7 MR 48, and with Registered Label No. 2793. A very scarce cover indeed. Price $135 APH7) Australia 1936 small airmail cover, Fremantle W.A. to Sunderland UK, bearing 1/4d Turquoise KGV C of A wmk, plus 2d Submarine cable to make 1/6d Airmail rate. Cancelled by 3 line slogan “USE THE – POSTAL EXPRESS – MESSENGER SERVICE” AND WITH CDS OF Fremantle (date unclear) The 1/4d alone cat. $300 on cover. Price $210 APH9) Australia 1934 First Australia Autogyro Flight Card, in almost pristine condition, franked with 3 x Halfpenny Orange KGV and cancelled by cds of Portland 16 NO 34.AAMC Cat. Number 461. Numbered 1809. Price $59 BD516) Australia 1969 25c Christmas solo use on small Airmail cover to USA. Tied by machine cancel of Leederville W.A. of 5 MAR (year not legible) Presumably 1971 as manuscript on face “Return Mailed 15 May 71” in which case it is underpaid 5c, as rate was 30c. Very rare on solo use cover, price $69 LM131) Australia 1970 30c Cook, solo commercial use on small Airmail cover to Scotland. Cancelled by machine cancel of Cootamundra, NSW 22 APR 1970. Very rare, in fact scarcer than the FDC! 1st I have owned, and certainly as scarce as the 35c 1972 Christmas. Price $129 DB827) Australia 1971 small airmail cover, bearing complete set of 1971 Christmas. (Block of 6 & single) to make 35c Airmail rate to UK. Cancelled by clear cds of New Lambton, NSW 18OC71. The 1st genuine commercial use of this set I have ever seen. I have sold a set of 7c singles on 7 covers domestic use recently in Auction for $115 plus the buyers' premium. This is rare! Price $249 LM95) Australia 1990 small double rate cover to UK bearing gutter block of 4 x 25c and 10c single Living Together Ted by Oval International Mail Centre cds Melbourne 3000, 20 MAR 1990, applied by hand after Preston Mail centre machine cancel of 16 MAR was applied inverted and cancelled only the 10c stamp. Great commercial cover of a sought after series. Definitely a commercial use, first I have owned of the 25c on commercial cover that recall and not a single one listed worldwide on EBay or on any other major postal history dealer’s site. Price $69 Australian Commonwealth Postal Stationery LM10) 1915 Lettercard KGV, lettercard, Submarine AE1, being 1 of 2 subs. Purchased from the UK prior to WWI. Both were sent to New Guinea during the war, but after New Guinea was captured it was sent to search the Pacific for the German fleet. Lost without trace 14/9/14. ACSC L27. Bears squared circle April 1916 cancel of Victor Harbor, S.A. Selvedge removed. Price $95 LM26) 1916 1d KGV Sideface. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards in blue, ASC # L9a, "2nd A.I.F. EMBARKING" FU Oct 1916 letter card from Flemington to Northcote. Price $245 LM29) 1922 2d red. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards, grey stock inside & out, ASC #LC18, view 'PINEAPPLES QUEENSLAND' unused, fresh. Price $190 LM28) 1943 Lettercard KGVI. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 2.5d red, text on front T base 'DO NOT NEGLECT. . ...', ASC #L44, unused. Price $55

KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS & COINS Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693

Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections, pay cents, not $ per stamp! UPDATED JANUARY 2017, KEEP THIS LIST, UPDATES WILL BE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN! Discounts from this list: Spend $100 and deduct 5%, $101 to $250 deduct 10%, $251 plus deduct 15% All different in each packet

25 AAT ......................................................$ 3.00 50 AAT ................................................... $ 25.00 100 AAT ................................................. $ 99.00 50 ADEN ................................................ $ 12.00 100 AFGHANISTAN .................................. $ 15.00 100 AFRICA ..............................................$ 6.00 200 AFRICA ............................................. $ 13.00 50 AITUTAKI ........................................... $ 40.00 150 AITUTAKI ....................................... $ 140.00 200 AITUTAKI ........................................$180.00 50 ALBANIA ............................................$14.00 100 ALBANIA ......................................... $ 24.00 50 ALGERIA .............................................$11.00 25 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H .......... $ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H .......... $ 50.00 25 ANDORA - SPANISH MINT U/H ........... $ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - SPANISH MINT U/H ......... $ 60.00 25 ANGUILLA ...........................................$18.00 25 ANTIGUA ..............................................$ 5.00 50 ANTIGUA BARBUDA............................ $ 20.00 200 ARAB STATES ................................... $ 12.00 100 ARGENTINA .......................................$ 6.00 200 ARGENTINA ..................................... $ 15.00 300 ARGENTINA.......................................$28.00 25 ASCENSION .......................................$42.00 100 AUST. (DEC MINT U/H) ..................... $ 55.00 100 AUST. (PRE-DEC.MINT U/H) ............. $ 60.00 100 AUSTRALIA ........................................$ 4.00 200 AUSTRALIA ........................................$ 6.00 300 AUSTRALIA ........................................$ 8.00 400 AUSTRALIA ...................................... $ 13.50 500 AUSTRALIA ...................................... $ 16.50 600 AUSTRALIA ...................................... $ 27.50 800 AUSTRALIA ...................................... $ 40.00 1000 AUSTRALIA .................................... $ 65.00 250 AUSTRALIA CTO PACK (MODERN).......$60.00 300 AUSTRALIA CTO PACK (MODERN) ......$70.00 25 AUSTRALIAN STATES .......................... $ 16.00 50 AUSTRALIAN STATES .......................... $ 96.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES – NSW ...............$16.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES – QLD.................$20.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES – SA....................$20.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES – TASMANIA .......$20.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES – VICTORIA .........$10.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES – WA...................$30.00 100 AUSTRIA ............................................$ 7.00 200 AUSTRIA .......................................... $ 18.00 500 AUSTRIA ........................................ $ 130.00 100 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS) .............. $ 50.00

100 BAHAMAS ....................................... $ 90.00

50 BAHAMAS (MINT SETS)........................$42.00 25 BAHRAIN ........................................... $ 33.00 50 BAHRAIN ........................................... $ 72.00 100 BANGLADESH ................................... $ 11.00 25 BARBADOS ........................................ $ 12.00 50 BARBADOS ........................................ $ 40.00 100 BARBADOS ...................................... $ 70.00 50 BASUTOLAND/ LESOTHO ....................$40.00 50 BAVARIA ........................................... $ 28.00 100 BELGIAN CONGO ................................$32.00 200 BELGIAN CONGO ............................ $ 100.00 100 BELGIUM .............................................$6.00 200 BELGIUM ..........................................$15.00 300 BELGIUM ......................................... $ 24.00 100 BELGIAN COLONIES ........................... $ 13.00 300 BELGIAN COLONIES .......................... $ 80.00 500 BELGIAN COLONIES .........................$166.00 25 BERMUDA ...........................................$24.00 100 BERMUDA ........................................ $ 90.00 100 BHUTAN ...........................................$30.00 50 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ............................ $ 8.00 100 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ........................ $ 24.00 150 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ........................ $ 55.00 25 BOLIVIA ...............................................$ 6.00 50 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ....................... $ 33.00 150 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ................... $ 170.00 25 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA (MUH IN SETS) $50.00 100 Br.P.O. AGENCIES ............................ $ 100.00 25 BR. SOLOMONS .................................. $ 10.00 100 BRAZIL ............................................ $ 17.00 200 BRAZIL ............................................ $ 36.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ................. $ 6.00 200 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH .............. $ 10.00 500 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH .............. $ 30.00 100 BRITISH C'WEALTH (MINT U/H) ........ $ 27.00 100 BRITISH C'WEALTH KGVI (MINT U/H) $ 60.00 500 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH MINT ....$100.00 1000 BRITISH C'WEALTH LRG (COMMEMS190.00 50 BRIT. HONDURAS (LRG.COMMEMS) .... $ 40.00 25 HONDURAS AND BELIZE .......................$ 9.00 25 BRITISH VIRGIN ISL............................. $ 22.00 100 BRITISH WEST INDIES ....................... $ 14.00 25 BRUNEI .............................................. $ 30.00 50 BRUNEI ...............................................$66.00 200 BULGARIA ........................................ $ 17.00 100 BURUNDI ......................................... $ 20.00

25 CAMBODIA ........................................ $ 10.00 100 CAMBODIA .................................... $ 115.00 100 CANADA ............................................$ 6.00 1000 CANADA .......................................$100.00 100 CANADA (MINT.COMMEMS) ............ $ 50.00 25 CAYMAN ISL ...................................... $ 15.00 50 CAYMAN ISL ...................................... $ 36.00 100 CHANNEL ISLANDS .......................... $ 19.00 150 CHANNEL ISLANDS(MINT).................$90.00 200 CHANNEL ISLANDS, MINT SETS ...... $ 110.00 100 CHILE .............................................. $ 12.00 200 CHILE .............................................. $ 24.00 100 CHINA ............................................. $ 39.00

300 CHINA ........................................... $ 130.00 500 CHINA ........................................... $ 350.00 50 CHINA & TAIWAN ................................$16.00 200 CHINA & TAIWAN ..............................$60.00 300 CHINA & TAIWAN ............................$130.00 500 CHINA & TAIWAN ............................$260.00 100 CHINA (LRG, MINT, COMP.SETS) ........ $ 60.00 25 CHRISTMAS ISLAND .......................... $ 14.00 50 CHRISTMAS ISLAND .......................... $ 33.00 75 CHRISTMAS ISLAND .......................... $ 50.00 100 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ...................... $ 100.00 150 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ...................... $ 150.00 200 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ...................... $ 230.00 25 COCOS ISLAND .....................................$ 8.00 50 COCOS ISLAND ................................... $ 38.00 75 COCOS ISLAND ................................... $ 60.00 100 COCOS ISLAND ............................... $ 132.00 300 COLOMBIA ....................................... $ 60.00 300 COOK ISLANDS ............................... $ 350.00 400 COOK ISLANDS ............................... $ 560.00 500 COOK ISLANDS ............................... $ 650.00 750 COOK ISLANDS ............................. $ 1280.00 1000 COOK ISLANDS .......................... $ 2,000.00 50 COSTA RICA (MINT SETS) .....................$20.00 50 CROATIA (PRE WAR) ........................... $ 20.00 50 CROATIA (POST WAR, MINT) ................$40.00 100 CUBA ................................................$ 9.00 200 CUBA (LARGE PICT.)...........................$18.00 300 CUBA ............................................... $ 30.00 25 CYPRUS.............................................. $ 12.00 50 CYPRUS............................................. $ 30.00 100 CYPRUS............................................ $ 60.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ...............................$ 3.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ............................. $ 15.00 500 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ............................. $ 17.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)........... $ 17.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (POST WAR).......... $ 11.00 400 CZECHOSLOVAKIA MINT.....................$30.00

50 DANZIG .............................................. $ 29.00 100 DANZIG ............................................ $ 66.00 100 DENMARK .........................................$ 6.00 200 DENMARK .........................................$12.00 500 DENMARK .........................................$60.00 25 DOMINICA BR........................................$4.00 50 DOMINICA BR. ......................................$ 6.00 100 DOMINICA BR. .................................. $ 30.00 50 DOMINICA BR. (KGVI & QEII) .............. $ 40.00 50 DOMINICAN REP ................................ $ 18.00 100 DOMINICAN REP. ............................. $ 39.00

200 ECUADOR ......................................... $ 96.00 400 ECUADOR ....................................... $ 120.00 500 ECUADOR ...................................... $ 150.00 100 EGYPT .............................................. $ 10.00 200 EGYPT .............................................. $ 56.00 300 EGYPT .............................................. $ 70.00 50 EGYPT (MINT/UH IN COMPL. SETS) ..... $ 30.00

Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.kevinmorgan.com.au www.stampnews.net.au

Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections 50 EGYPT + 4 M/S .................................. $ 30.00 25 EQUATORIAL GUINEA (M/SHEET CTO) .$ 11.00 50 ESTONIA ............................................ $ 66.00

20 FALKLAND ISL. COMPL. MINT SETS.... $ 100.00 25 FALKLAND ISLAND ............................. $ 24.00 50 FAROE ISLAND ................................... $ 60.00 100 FAROE ISLAND ................................ $ 130.00 50 FIJI ..................................................... $ 18.00 100 FIJI .................................................. $ 50.00 150 FIJI .................................................. $ 70.00 200 FIJI .................................................. $ 80.00 250 FIJI ................................................. $ 140.00 400 FIJI ................................................. $ 300.00 100 FINLAND ......................................... $ 18.00 300 FINLAND ......................................... $ 60.00 10 FIUME ..................................................$ 7.00 300 FRANCE ............................................ $ 30.00 500 FRANCE .............................................$70.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES .............................$ 6.00 200 FRENCH COLONIES ............................ $ 20.00 500 FRENCH COLONIES .............................$70.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE IND) ............ $ 28.00 100 FRENCH. MOROCCO .......................... $ 25.00 50 FRENCH POLYNESIA ............................ $ 50.00

50 GERMANY 3RD REICH ......................... $ 13.00 25 GERMANY..............................................$5.00 100 GERMANY .........................................$ 7.00 300 GERMANY ........................................ $ 18.00 1000 GERMANY ...................................... $ 70.00 100 GERMANY (PRE WAR)........................$24.00 500 GERMANY EAST................................ $ 40.00 50 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H ) ..... $ 10.00 100 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H)..... $ 20.00 500 GERMANY WEST ................................$60.00 100 GERMANY WEST (LARGE COMMEMS).$20.00 50 GHANA .............................................. $ 50.00 100 GHANA ............................................ $ 70.00 200 GHANA .......................................... $ 120.00 25 GIBRALTAR ......................................... $ 17.00 50 GIBRALTAR ......................................... $ 45.00 500 GILBERT, KIRIBATI, TUVALU .............$270.00 25 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU ................. $ 12.00 50 GILBERT, KIRIBATI,TUVALU .................$30.00 150 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU ................ $ 90.00 200 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .............. $ 100.00 360 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .............. $ 190.00 400 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .............. $ 225.00 50 GREAT BRITAIN .....................................$ 7.00 100 GREAT BRITAIN ...................................$ 9.00 1000 GREAT BRITAIN ............................. $ 176.00 1200 GREAT BRITAIN ............................. $ 230.00 100 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS) ..$12.00 200 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS).. $ 20.00 500 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS) ..$70.00 100 GREECE ............................................ $ 24.00 200 GREECE ............................................ $ 50.00

300 GREECE ............................................ $ 70.00 100 GREENLAND ................................... $ 100.00 100 GRENADA MINT................................ $ 24.00 50 GUATEMALA ...................................... $ 14.00 100 GUATEMALA..................................... $ 32.00 300 GUATEMALA................................... $ 150.00 25 GUINEA M/S ...................................... $ 10.00 50 GUINEA REP. .........................................$ 6.00 100 GUINEA REP. (LARGE PICT.) .............. $ 10.00

50 HAITI ................................................. $ 18.00 100 HAITI ............................................... $ 30.00 200 HAITI ............................................... $ 55.00 100 HOLLAND ...........................................$ 7.00 200 HOLLAND ......................................... $ 14.00 300 HOLLAND ......................................... $ 30.00 400 HOLLAND ......................................... $ 40.00 50 HONDURAS .........................................$30.00 100 HONDURAS ...................................... $ 50.00 200 HONDURAS ...................................... $ 80.00 400 HONDURAS ................................... $ 140.00 100 HONDURAS REP. ................................$60.00 25 HONG KONG .........................................$ 6.00 50 HONG KONG ...................................... $ 12.00 200 HONG KONG ................................... $ 100.00 500 HUNGARY ........................................ $ 30.00 2000 HUNGARY ................................... $ 150.00 3000 HUNGARY ................................... $ 440.00 200 HUNGRY ( LARGE PICT) .................... $ 18.00 300 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) ................. $ 24.00

25 ICELAND ............................................ $ 20.00 50 ICELAND ............................................ $ 40.00 100 INDIA ..................................................$6.00 200 INDIA ................................................$16.00 25 INDO - CHINA ......................................$ 8.00 50 INDO - CHINA ..................................... $ 30.00 200 INDONESIA ...................................... $ 24.00 100 INDONESIAN (RECENT COMMEMS).... $ 33.00 100 IRAN .................................................$14.00 300 IRAN ............................................... $ 30.00 50 IRELAND ..............................................$ 9.00 100 IRELAND ......................................... $ 18.00 300 IRELAND ........................................ $ 210.00 400 IRELAND ........................................ $ 240.00 500 IRELAND ........................................ $ 280.00 100 ISRAEL ..............................................$13.00 20 ISRAEL COMPLETE MINT SETS ............ $ 90.00 25 ITALIAN COLONIES ............................. $ 15.00 100 ITALIAN COLONIES ............................ $ 75.00 200 ITALIAN COLONIES .......................... $ 160.00 100 ITALY ..................................................$ 6.00 200 ITALY ............................................... $ 16.00 300 ITALY .................................................$36.00 500 ITALY ............................................... $ 80.00

100 JAMAICA ......................................... $ 50.00 50 JAPAN ...................................................$4.00

KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS & COINS Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693

200 JAPAN ...............................................$30.00 100 JAPAN (ALL MINT) ........................... $ 70.00 100 JAPAN (COMMEMS) ......................... $ 20.00 200 JAPAN (COMMEMS) ......................... $ 50.00 50 JERSEY ............................................... $ 13.00

50 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.) ................ $ 6.00 100 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.)............. $ 10.00 50 KOREA NORTH (M/SHEET) .................. $ 20.00 50 KOREA SOUTH .................................... $ 24.00

25 LAOS......................................................$4.00 50 LAOS ....................................................$ 7.00 20 LAOS PRE WAR .....................................$ 6.00 100 LATIN AMERICA ................................ $ 10.00 300 LATIN AMERICA ................................ $ 50.00 50 LATVIA ............................................... $ 44.00 75 LATVIA (Pre War) ............................. $ 100.00 100 LEBANON ......................................... $ 40.00 200 LEBANON ...................................... $ 100.00 50 LIBERIA ...............................................$ 9.00 100 LIBERIA .............................................$25.00 200 LIBERIA ............................................ $ 35.00 300 LIBERIA ............................................ $ 70.00 25 LIECHTENSTEIN .................................. $ 10.00 50 LIECHTENSTEIN .................................. $ 30.00 25 LITHUANIA ......................................... $ 10.00 50 LITHUANIA ......................................... $ 30.00 100 LITHUANIA ..................................... $ 100.00 50 LUXEMBOURG ......................................$ 8.00 100 LUXEMBOURG .................................. $ 21.00 200 LUXEMBOURG....................................$50.00 300 LUXEMBOURG ...................................$70.00

50 MACAU .............................................. $ 60.00 300 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE ................ $ 66.00 1000 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE ........... $ 400.00 100 MALDIVES ........................................ $ 24.00 100 MALAYSIA .........................................$13.00 100 MALDIVES .........................................$24.00 100 MALTA ............................................. $ 10.00 500 MALTA ........................................... $ 140.00 100 MAURITIUS ...................................... $ 60.00 100 MEXICO .............................................$24.00 200 MEXICO ............................................ $ 60.00 50 MONACO ............................................ $ 18.00 100 MONACO ......................................... $ 40.00 100 MONGOLIA ........................................$10.00 25 MONTENEGRO ................................... $ 20.00 50 MONTENEGRO ................................... $ 50.00 100 MONTSERRAT ................................ $ 114.00 25 MOROCCO AGENCIES .............................$8.00 50 MOZAMBIQUE ................................... $ 10.00 200 MOZAMBIQUE .................................. $ 55.00 400 MOZAMBIQUE ................................ $ 270.00 500 MOZAMBIQUE ................................ $ 300.00 50 MYANMAR (BURMA) ...........................$30.00

Pay cents, not $ per stamp! N

25 NAURU ............................................... $ 11.00 50 NAURU ............................................... $ 33.00 100 NAURU ............................................ $ 93.00 150 NAURU ........................................... $ 134.00 200 NAURU ........................................... $ 160.00 100 NEPAL .............................................. $ 16.00 25 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES ................... $ 20.00 100 NEW CALEDONIA .......................... $ 150.00 10 NEWFOUNDLAND ................................$ 8.00 25 NEWFOUNDLAND .............................. $ 16.00 100 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU ............... $ 90.00 200 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .............. $ 260.00 300 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .............. $ 440.00 400 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .............. $ 600.00 100 NEW ZEALAND ....................................$5.00 150 NEW ZEALAND ...................................$ 6.00 200 NEW ZEALAND ................................ $ 14.00 300 NEW ZEALAND ................................ $ 28.00 500 NEW ZEALAND ................................ $ 90.00 25 NICARAGUA .........................................$ 2.00 100 NICARAGUA .................................... $ 12.00 200 NICARAGUA ......................................$24.00 300 NICARAGUA ......................................$40.00 500 NICARAGUA ..................................... $ 70.00 300 NICARAGUA ..................................... $ 40.00 50 NIGERIA ............................................. $ 36.00 100 NIGERIA ........................................... $ 60.00 25 NIUE .................................................. $ 20.00 50 NIUE .................................................. $ 40.00 100 NIUE ................................................ $ 88.00 150 NIUE .............................................. $ 140.00 200 NIUE .............................................. $ 200.00 25 NORFOLK ISL. ..................................... $ 11.00 50 NORFOLK ISL. ..................................... $ 26.00 100 NORFOLK ISL. ................................... $ 90.00 200 NORFOLK ISL. ................................ $ 150.00 300 NORFOLK ISL. ................................ $ 270.00 100 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH......... .$ 190.00 120 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.......... $ 200.00 150 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.......... $ 240.00 200 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.......... $ 360.00 250 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH......... .$ 460.00 300 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH......... .$ 700.00 100 NORWAY ............................................$ 9.00 200 NORWAY ......................................... $ 20.00 500 NORWAY ......................................... $ 90.00 25 NYASALAND ...................................... $ 50.00

50 PACIFIC IS (BR) .....................................$ 8.00 100 PACIFIC IS. (BR) ................................$16.00 200 PACIFIC IS. (BR) ................................ $ 56.00 100 PAKISTAN .........................................$12.00 200 PAKISTAN ..........................................$30.00 50 PANAMA ............................................ $ 13.00 25 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$5.00 50 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ............................ $ 7.00 100 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ....................... $ 26.00 150 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ....................... $ 62.00

200 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ....................... $ 88.00 500 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...................... $ 400.00 600 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...................... $ 750.00 800 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .................... $ 1900.00 300 PARAGUAY ...................................... $ 60.00 100 PARAGUAY (MINT U/H)) ................... $ 20.00 50 PENRHYN (MINT SETS) ...................... $ 70.00 100 PERU.................................................$30.00 300 PERU .................................................$50.00 500 PERU .............................................. $ 170.00 600 PERU .............................................. $ 250.00 700 PERU .............................................. $ 470.00 100 PHILIPPINES .................................... $ 18.00 300 PHILIPPINES .................................... $ 70.00 800 PHILIPPINES .................................. $ 250.00 900 PHILIPPINES .................................. $ 330.00 1200 PHILIPPINES ................................ $ 500.00 1500 PHILIPPINES ................................ $ 700.00 25 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H) ........... $ 20.00 100 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H) ........ $ 150.00 150 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H) ........ $ 170.00 200 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H) ........ $ 324.00 50 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MOSTLY MINT) ...... $ 50.00 100 POLAND .............................................$ 4.00 300 POLAND ........................................... $ 12.00 500 POLAND ........................................... $ 30.00 1000 POLAND ......................................... $ 60.00 100 PORTUGAL ...................................... $ 18.00 200 PORTUGAL ...................................... $ 40.00 100 PORTUGAL COLONIES ....................... $ 40.00 300 PORTUGAL COLONIES .................... $ 130.00

50 QATAR .................................................$40.00

50 RHODESIA ......................................... $ 16.00 200 RHODESIA ...................................... $ 140.00 300 RHODESIA ...................................... $ 240.00 400 RHODESIA ...................................... $ 400.00 100 ROMANIA ............................................$3.00 200 ROMANIA ............................................$5.00 500 ROMANIA ......................................... $ 31.00 1000 ROMANIA ..................................... $ 100.00 200 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ................... $ 11.00 300 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ................... $ 18.00 200 RUSSIA ............................................ $ 14.00 300 RUSSIA ............................................ $ 24.00 500 RUSSIA ............................................ $ 50.00 1000 RUSSIA............................................$90.00 100 RUSSIA (MINT SHORT SETS) ............. $ 11.00 18 RUSSIA COMP. MINT SETS ....................$30.00 100 RUSSIAN INDP.STATES (MINT U/H).... $ 33.00

50 SAAR.................................................. $ 33.00 50 SALVADOR ......................................... $ 40.00 100 SALVADOR........................................ $ 80.00 25 SAMOA ................................................$ 7.00 50 SAMOA .............................................. $ 26.00

100 SAMOA ............................................ $ 66.00 400 SAMOA .......................................... $ 272.00 500 SAMOA .......................................... $ 380.00 600 SAMOA .......................................... $ 780.00 25 SAN MARINO........................................$ 6.00 50 SAN MARINO...................................... $ 11.00 100 SAN MARINO ................................... $ 30.00 50 SARAWAK ......................................... $ 45.00 100 SARAWAK ...................................... $ 200.00 500 SCANDINAVIA ...................................$40.00 1000 SCANDINAVIA .................................$90.00 50 SERBIA ............................................... $ 50.00 25 SEYCHELLES ...................................... $ 40.00 100 SEYCHELLES ..................................... $ 90.00 25 SIERRA LEONE ................................... $ 24.00 50 SIERRA LEONE ................................... $ 50.00 50 SINGAPORE ........................................ $ 12.00 100 SINGAPORE ...................................... $ 30.00 200 SINGAPORE ................................... $ 100.00 75 SLOVAKIA ........................................... $ 17.00 100 SLOVAKIA (NEW REPUBLIC) .............. $ 22.00 50 SOLOMON ISL. ................................... $ 20.00 100 SOLOMON ISL. .................................. $ 60.00 150 SOLOMON ISL. ................................ $ 100.00 200 SOLOMON ISL. ................................ $ 160.00 300 SOLOMON ISL. ................................ $ 300.00 400 SOLOMON ISL. ................................ $ 520.00 500 SOLOMON ISL. ................................ $ 700.00 100 SOUTH AFRICA ................................ $ 12.00 200 SOUTH AFRICA ................................ $ 30.00 100 SOUTH WEST AFRICA ........................$80.00 100 SOUTHERN RHODESIA .........................60.00 100 SPAIN .................................................$ 8.00 200 SPAIN ............................................... $ 24.00 300 SPAIN ............................................... $ 30.00 100 SPANISH COLONIES .......................... $ 36.00 200 SRI LANKA ....................................... $ 30.00 100 SRI LANKA / CEYLON ........................ $ 24.00 10 ST. HELENA ..........................................$ 9.00 50 ST. KITTS ............................................ $ 26.00 75 ST. KITTS ............................................ $ 36.00 100 ST. KITTS ......................................... $ 54.00 100 ST. LUCIA ......................................... $ 60.00 50 ST. THOMAS .........................................$ 8.00 100 ST. THOMAS ..................................... $ 14.00 20 ST. THOMAS (MS) .............................. $ 11.00 50 ST. VINCENT ...................................... $ 18.00 100 ST. VINCENT ..................................... $ 30.00 25 SUDAN ............................................... $ 12.00 100 SURINAME ...................................... $ 90.00 50 SWAZILAND ...................................... $ 20.00 100 SWAZILAND ..................................... $ 60.00 100 SWEDEN ............................................$ 8.00 500 SWEDEN .......................................... $ 70.00 100 SWITZERLAND ................................. $ 20.00 200 SWITZERLAND ................................. $ 40.00 500 SWITZERLAND ................................$120.00 800 SWITZERLAND ............................... $ 150.00 1200 SWITZERLAND ............................. $ 600.00 1300 SWITZERLAND ............................. $ 900.00

Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.kevinmorgan.com.au www.stampnews.net.au

Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections 1500 SWITZERLAND ........................... $ 1600.00 50 SYRIA .................................................$16.00

100 THAILAND ........................................ $ 40.00 300 THAILAND ...................................... $ 130.00 400 THAILAND ...................................... $ 180.00 600 THAILAND ...................................... $ 370.00 50 TOKELAU ............................................ $ 60.00 75 TOKELAU ............................................$80.00 25 TONGA ............................................... $ 16.00 50 TONGA ............................................... $ 36.00 100 TONGA ........................................... $ 110.00 100 TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ....................... $ 76.00 10 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ............................ $ 10.00 50 TRISTAN DA CUNHA .......................... $ 60.00 100 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ....................... $ 170.00 35 TRISTAN DA CUNHA COMPL. SETS ......$110.00 50 TUNISIA ............................................. $ 12.00 100 TUNISIA ........................................... $ 30.00 100 TURKEY ..............................................$ 6.00 200 TURKEY ............................................ $ 14.00 300 TURKEY ............................................ $ 20.00 25 TURKS & CAICOS...................................$ 6.00 100 TURKS & CAICOS (MINT U/H) ........... $ 70.00

100 U.N.O ............................................... $ 24.00 300 U.N.O ............................................ $ 120.00 100 URUGUAY ......................................... $ 20.00 100 USA ...................................................$ 4.00 200 USA ...................................................$ 8.00 500 USA.................................................. $ 60.00 1000 USA............................................... $ 80.00 1031 USA (1935/84 50 YEARS USED SETS) ... $100.00 300 USA (COMMEMS) ............................. $ 14.00 100 USA (MINT COMMEMS) .................... $ 50.00 200 USA (MINT COMMEMS) ................. $ 100.00

25 VATICAN ...............................................$ 6.00 50 VATICAN ............................................ $ 30.00 100 VATICAN ........................................... $ 70.00 200 VATICAN ........................................... $ 90.00 25 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) ............................. $ 16.00 50 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) ............................. $ 30.00 100 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) ............................ $ 70.00 200 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .......................... $ 180.00 50 VENEZUELA ........................................ $ 17.00 100 VENEZUELA ...................................... $ 40.00 700 VENEZUELA ................................... $ 250.00 800 VENEZUELA ................................... $ 350.00 100 VIETNAM ......................................... $ 30.00

100 WALLIS & FUTUNA ......................... $ 130.00 200 WALLIS & FUTUNA ......................... $ 300.00 25 WURTTEMBERG ................................. $ 16.00

50 WURTTEMBERG ................................. $ 60.00

100 YUGOSLAVIA ......................................$ 9.00 200 YUGOSLAVIA ................................... $ 17.00 300 YUGOSLAVIA ................................... $ 20.00

50 ZANZIBAR ......................................... $ 80.00

THEMATICS

50 AIRCRAFT ............................................$6.00 100 AIRCRAFT ..........................................$12.00 50 ANIMALS..............................................$6.00 100 ANIMALS...........................................$13.00 300 ANIMALS...........................................$40.00 500 ANIMALS ..........................................$60.00 100 ANIMALS (WINDOW DISPLAY)...........$13.00 200 ANIMALS (WINDOW DISPLAY)...........$30.00 50 BICYCLES..............................................$9.00 100 BYCYCLES..........................................$13.00 100 BIKES AND CARS................................$13.00 50 BIRDS ..................................................$7.00 100 BIRDS................................................$13.00 200 BIRDS................................................$20.00 500 BIRDS............................................... $ 80.00 50 BIRDS (WINDOW DISPLAY)..................$8.00 100 BIRDS (WINDOW DISPLAY)................$15.00 200 BIRDS (WINDOW DISPLAY)................$30.00 100 BUTTERFLIES .................................... $ 14.00 300 BUTTERFLIES .....................................$50.00 100 BUTTERFLIES (WINDOW DISPLAY) ....$15.00 200 BUTTERFLIES (WINDOW DISPLAY) ....$30.00 50 CARS....................................................$8.00 100 CARS .................................................$14.00 200 CARS .................................................$30.00 100 CARS ALL MINT..................................$24.00 50 CATS...................................................$10.00 100 CATS..................................................$20.00 50 CATS & DOGS........................................$6.00 100 CATS & DOGS.....................................$10.00 200 CATS & DOGS.....................................$30.00 300 CATS & DOGS.....................................$50.00 500 CATS & DOGS .....................................$80.00 50 COSTUMES...........................................$5.00 100 COSTUMES ........................................$10.00 200 DISNEY ............................................ $ 49.00 50 DOGS...................................................$9.00 100 DOGS ................................................$18.00 100 DOMESTIC ANIMALS (WINDOW DISPLAY) ... $15.00 100 FISH...................................................$12.00 500 FISH ................................................. $ 90.00 50 FISH & SEA LIFE (WINDOW DISPLAY)....$8.00 200 FISH & SEA LIFE (WINDOW DISPLAY).$30.00 100 FISH (WINDOW DISPLAY)..................$15.00 200 FISH...................................................$21.00 100 FLAGS................................................$12.00 50 FLOWERS.............................................$6.00 100 FLOWERS ..........................................$13.00

KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS & COINS Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693

500 FLOWERS ......................................... $ 70.00 50 FLOWERS (WINDOW DISPLAY) ............$8.00 100 FLOWERS (WINDOW DISPLAY) ..........$15.00 200 FLOWERS (WINDOW DISPLAY)...........$30.00 50 FOOTBALL .........................................$10.00 100 FOOTBALL..........................................$12.00 50 HORSES................................................$6.00 100 HORSES .............................................$13.00 200 HORSES .............................................$30.00 100 INSECTS............................................$12.00 50 MUSHROOMS (WINDOW DISPLAY).......$8.00 50 MUSIC (WINDOW DISPLAY)..................$8.00 50 PAINTINGS ...........................................$8.00 100 PAINTINGS.........................................$10.00 50 PAINTINGS (WINDOW DISPLAY) ..........$8.00 100 PAINTINGS (WINDOW DISPLAY) ........$15.00 100 REPTILES .............................................$6.50 50 ROSES ................................................$8.00 100 ROSES ...............................................$13.00 100 SCOUTS .............................................$16.00 25 SHELLS ...............................................$4.00 50 SHELLS.................................................$6.00 100 SHELLS .............................................$20.00 50 SHIPS...................................................$8.00 100 SHIPS.................................................$12.00 300 SHIPS................................................ $ 40.00 50 SOCCER (WINDOW DISPLAY) .............. $ 8.00 50 SPACE..................................................$ 6.00 300 SPACE................................................$19.50 500 SPACE .............................................. $ 66.00 50 SPACE (WINDOW DISPLAY)................. $ 8.00 100 SPACE (WINDOW DISPLAY) .............. $ 13.00 50 SPORT ................................................$ 6.00 100 SPORT................................................$11.00 50 SPORT (WINDOW DISPLAY)................. $ 8.00 100 SPORT (WINDOW DISPLAY) .............. $ 13.00 200 SPORTS............................................. $ 13.00 300 SPORTS............................................. $ 30.00 100 STAMPS ON STAMPS......................... $ 11.00 500 TRAINS ..............................................$90.00 100 TRAINS (WINDOW DISPLAY)..............$15.00 200 TRAINS (WINDOW DISPLAY)..............$30.00 100 TRANSPORT ...................................... $ 6.00 10 TRIANGLES........................................ $ 10.00 50 TRIANGLES........................................ $ 16.00 64 UN FLAGS...........................................$60.00 100 UNIFORMS.........................................$13.00

World Packets

10,000 WORLD (IN 10 ALBUMS) ............$900.00 100 WORLD (IN GLASSINE BAG) ................$4.00 300 WORLD (IN GLASSINE BAG)...............$10.00 5000 WORLD (IN GLASSINE BAG) ...........$300.00 100 WORLD (WINDOW DISPLAY) ..............$4.00 500 WORLD (WINDOW DISPLAY) ...........$18.00 1000 WORLD (WINDOW DISPLAY) ...........$35.00 2000 WORLD (WINDOW DISPLAY) ........$100.00 3000 WORLD (WINDOW DISPLAY) ........$150.00 5000 WORLD (WINDOW DISPLAY) ........ $310.00

Graeme Morriss

Zealand. They were in use for a relatively short period, being withdrawn in 1971 after which all New Zealand train services were run by diesel engines. Thirty-five of the class were built at the Hillside workshops in Dunedin, though some components were sourced from British firms. Another six locomotives of this class were built in Britain. The ‘Ja’

class ran only in the South Island, providing very fast passenger and freight services on the main north – south line. It is believed that unofficially it sometimes reached speeds of over 75 mph (125 km/h) on the Canterbury Plains though officially it was restricted to 65 mph. Seven examples of the ‘Ja’ class are preserved, including one in the Otago Settlers Museum. The nearby photo of Ja 1271 was taken by ‘Karora’. These New Zealand designed and built steam locomotives represented considerable local ingenuity, innovation and manufacturing skills and industrial capacity. Interestingly, all done by the government sector. Why have we lost the ability to do this in this part of the world? The stamps were designed by R M Conly and lithography printed by Harrison and Sons. The 3 cent was printed in five colours and the others in four colours. They were printed on tandem plates numbered 1A1A1A1A and 1B1B1B1B. White, unwatermarked paper was used and the perforations gauged 14¼. The stamps were issued on 4 April 1973 and withdrawn from post offices on 31 May 1973 and from the Philatelic Bureau on 31 March 1974. References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1952 – . The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 6, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1977. Graeme can be contacted through his website, www.stampsmw.top1. com.au Stamp News - 45

New 2016 AUSTRALIA CATALOGUE $79.95

Catalogues AVAILABLE

STANLEY GIBBONs GB & British commonwealth

Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps 1840-1970 2016 Edition ................................... $217.50 Commonwealth Simplified Catalogue 1840 - 2010 ......................................................................$95.00 Australia and Territories 10th Edition 2016.................................................................................$79.00 Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka 3rd Edition 2015.................................................$49.50 Belize, Guyana, Trinidad 2009 .......................................................................................................$28.00 Bermuda, Bahamas & North Caribbean 1st Edition 2006 .........................................................$59.95 Brunei Malaysia & Singapore 2013 ..............................................................................................$57.50 Canada & Former Provinces 2014 Edition...................................................................................$62.00 Central Africa 2014 .........................................................................................................................$72.50 Cyprus, Malta & Gibraltar 4th Edition 2014 ..............................................................................$45.00 East Africa 1st Edition 2007 ...........................................................................................................$49.95 Eastern Pacific 3rd Edition ............................................................................................................$48.50 Falklands Is. & Dependencies 2013 ...............................................................................................$35.75 Hong Kong 11th Edition 2015 .....................................................................................................$139.50 India including States 2013 ............................................................................................................$73.00 Indian Ocean 3rd Edition 2016......................................................................................................$53.90 Ireland 6th Edition 2015 ................................................................................................................$37.50 Leeward Islands 2012 .....................................................................................................................$56.50 North East Africa 2013 ...................................................................................................................$60.50 Northern Caribbean Bahamas & Bermuda 2013 .......................................................................$45.00 New Zealand & Dependencies 6th Edition 2014 ..........................................................................$56.00 St. Helena & Dependencies 2014 ...................................................................................................$35.50 Southern Africa & Central Africa 2014 ........................................................................................$72.50 West Africa 2nd Edition 2012 ........................................................................................................$57.50 Western Pacific incl. Fiji, Pitcairn, Cook Is., PNG, Solomons etc 2009 .....................................$41.50 Windward Islands & Barbados 3rd Edition ................................................................................$68.95 Great Britain Concise 2016 ............................................................................................................$77.50 Collect British Stamps 2016 ...........................................................................................................$39.95 Collect Channel Is. & Isle of Man 2014 ........................................................................................$70.00 GB Specialised Queen Victoria 16th Edition 2011 .......................................................................$90.00 GB Specialised 4 Kings 14th Edition 2015.................................................................................. $119.50 GB Specialised QEII pre-decimal 11th Edition 2011 ...................................................................$81.00 GB Specialised QEII Decimal Vol 4 2010 Edition ........................................................................$79.50 KGV Commonwealth Specialised 1st Edition 2010 .....................................................................$25.00

foreign Countries & thematics Western Europe Simpliﬁed catalogue 2012 ........................ $92.50 Stamps of the World, 6 volumes New 2015 Edition ........... $625.00 Austria & Hungary 8th Edition 2014 .................................... $81.00 Balkans 5th Edition................................................................. $93.50 Benelux 6th Edition 2010........................................................ $75.00 Central America 3rd Edition 2007 ........................................ $30.00 Central Asia 4th Edition 2007 ................................................ $55.50 China 10th Edition 2013 ....................................................... $115.00 France 1st Edition ................................................................... $82.50 Germany 11th Edition ............................................................ $87.50 Japan & Korea 2008 Edition ................................................. $35.00 Italy & Switzerland 8th Edition 2013 ................................... $97.50

Middle East - 2009 ................................................................. $75.00 Poland 2015.............................................................................. $59.00 Portugal & Spain 6th Edition 2011........................................ $81.00 Russia 2014 Edition............................................................... $123.00 Scandinavia 7th Edition 2013 ............................................... $62.50 South America 4th Edition 2008 ............................................ $89.50 South East Asia 2012............................................................... $91.00 USA 8th Edition 2015.............................................................. $99.50 We can supply a full range of Albums, Stockbooks, Stocksheets and Stockcards, Mounts and other accessories. Please contact us for your requirements. Wholesale and dealer enquiries welcome.

Stamp News Mail Order PO Box 1290, Upwey, Victoria, Australia Ph: 0425 795 693 email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Prices do not include Postage & handling

Glen Stephens Rarity Offers For 20 years, my ’Stamp Rarity Page’ has been a “must visit” place for many collectors and dealers, globally - tinyurl.com/ GlenRare Large clear photos, and lots of detail, and FIXED NETT PRICES. “Philatelic Porn” as one client jokingly described it as! No 20% “Buyer Fees” to add on top etc. All credit cards accepted - even Amex, and with NO insulting extra fees to you either! Each month I’ll add here, a couple of items from that page, for the possible interest of readers. Choice material, and special collection offers etc, from all over the globe. Material on that page often sells FAST - within hours of being listed up, and it changes often - weekly mostly, so do bookmark this page, and check often - tinyurl.com/GlenRare SYDNEY 2000 Olympics, Australia Post “Prime Minister’s Dinner”, Deluxe Stamp Album $A285: The Australian Prime Minister hosted an official Olympics dinner, and as Australia Post were a Major Sponsor of the 2000 Olympics, they offered to present all participants with a super Deluxe, brass cornered Album for the attendees. The exact same presentation as the 4 x superb late 1990s Australia Post “Engraved Stamps” books, (all of which I have in stock, at similar price!) with Brass corners, and heavily Gold embossed front covers, with Coat Of Arms of the Commonwealth of Australia, with the Olympic Wreath all around it (!) and hard matching slipcases etc. And a ton of Australia Post Olympic stamp issues inside as you can see on link below.  Near all the attendees there were IOC Big Shots, and Senior Politicians and dignitaries, and former ozzie Olympians and so on, who kept them as classy Dinner souvenirs, so very few of these Albums ever leaked into the secondary market. AP never SOLD any of these to the public. These are hence HEAVILY sought, not only by Olympic Collectors globally - but by all keen collectors of Australia Post official issues. Prestige Auctions invoiced one for $365 in Auction #88, and the only other one I’ve seen was priced at $400. The large book has 44 pages, plus many printed, heavy duty, frosted type interleaves - all GOLD blocked page edges even, and in a hand numbered Limited Edition. DOZENS more pix here - tinyurl.com/OlyPM (TWO Books for $A525 - Stock 682LR) 1 Book: $A285 (Stock 682LQ)

Australia 2016 "CHINA" Koala Stamp Miniature Sheet with WRONG Date and WRONG perf - just $A3 each! : There has recently been much global excitement with the China show "Jewel Beetle" sets of 5 Sheets selling for $A1,750 a set on ebay from the huge CHINA Expo in December. The 2004 $1 Koala stamp design was resurrected from the Archives for the attractive sheet shown above and in ERROR the “2004” micro Date was not excised off the printing plate! The Australia Post booth had long lines each day, and was MOBBED with collectors, with Security Guards on hand etc! Lots more photos of those Sheets, and the show here - tinyurl.com/Chhina1 I bought a parcel of these in December (it sold out that week!) as it was obvious to me they'd been overlooked, and basically no-one it seems, had noticed the "2004" Micro Print or different perforation error! Collectors with PO standing orders will NOT get this sheet in their mailing this year, nor will it be in the Annual Albums. So demand will be strong when word gets out it exists. On that basis alone, it is certainly worth quite a few bucks as it was near universally overlooked before selling out. It might well become a $20 or $50, or higher piece in short order - being so quirky and attractive, and seeing the Jewel Beetle sheets from the show have gone absolute gangbusters, at $A1,750 a set 5! I discovered the new version is a TOTALLY different perforation to the original - no-one realised that until well after they were totally sold out! My prices are as follows, subject to change with NO notice are: 1. 20 x MUH Koala sheets - $A120 (Stock 284TU) 2. 50 x MUH Koala sheets $A250 (Stock 284TV) 3. 100 x MUH Koala sheets $A400 (Stock 284TW) 4. 200 x MUH Koala sheets $A600 (Stock 284TX) If you want part or all of this order cancelled very neatly - no extra cost. CLEARLY specify it though. i.e. "284TV - 25 mint and 25 CTO" - no problems at all. Indeed used M/S will be 100 times scarcer than mint - some on eBay already at $299 EACH!

Australia Post *LEATHER* Year Albums 2000-2013 near HALF retail! Bought these from an Estate dirt cheap! 2000 to 2013 complete (13 books) - a CARTON full! The Leather (“Executive”) books are VERY classy. All are Black genuine Leather covered, with brass corners, since the first issue in 1986, so they are a fully matched classy Black set. Covers are thickly padded and deeply gold inscribed on front and spine. Each book has a matching gold embossed heavy slipcase. These keep dust and moisture OUT of your stamp albums and are ESSENTIAL in this climate.   My retail on these as you can see - tinyurl.com/ mgcqfbw - is $A2,750. There would not be ONE other dealer in this entire country that has these years in a complete run at ANY price - phone around! I bought these cheap in a huge Estate today, and to get back some floor space, and to get my money back fast, will do for near HALF retail at $A1,450. HEAPS more pix here - www.tinyurl.com/POLeather - Indeed this is UNDER the PO cost, and most of these had about $100 of face inside, the recent ones have well over $100 FACE inside each. and there are 13 of them!! $A1,450 (Stock 451WD) Order via: tinyurl.com/GlenOrder All Cards accepted with ZERO fee - even Amex! Bank Deposit fine, or Money Orders. PayPal is accepted in ANY major currency, saving you fees - contact me first. LayBys/Layaways always OK with me!

GLEN STEPHENS

Cinderella Corner Radio And Electrical Cinderellas

Radio And Electrical Exhibition

Welcome to the July issue of Cinderella Corner. We have now approached the centre of 2017, he collapsing months a reminder of the usual rapidity of each passing year and, with this, the middle of the Australian winter has descended upon the nation. While not always mutually dependable, winter in Australia, especially towards the south of the continent, aligns with the cold, and for many of us, this is synonomous with turning on a heater (or two). In the spirit of such actions, and the electricity bill that follows many of us after the indulgence of artificial warmth, this piece will explore a few Australian cinderella labels that advertise early Australian electrical and radio exhibitions. There are many other Australian items that explore a variety of radio ad electrical products, ranging from radio programs to refrigerators. This July issue, however, only deals only with those few that engage with exhibitions held across the country in the 1920s and 1930s.

Figure 1 illustrates a rather captivating and detailrich label, coloured in orange, blue and white. It is scarce and measures XXmm by XXmm and is perforated xx on all sides. The text reads: RADIO AND ELECTRICAL EXHIBITION 1928 – TOWN HALL SYDNEY – 21st TO 31st MARCH. The left of the label offers a broad motif to represent the power of radio at the time, with a god-like trumpeter in musical and announcing motion; the right highlights the wonders of electricity, with a seated robe-clad man holding up a bright lightbulb in his left hand. The Sydney Town Hall is also pictured in the bottom left corner of the label. The label promotes and celebrates the 5th annual Radio and Electrical Exhibition, with the first held in Perth in 1924. It then ran, across the country, for several years, thereafter. The label itself was used to promote an event that heralded significant and documented success the year earlier, with the Duke and Duchess of York having attended in 1927 and many radio sets consequently bought by attendees. Figure 2 is equally scarce and presents near-identical text to the label illustrated in Figure 1: ELECTRICAL AND RADIO EXHIBITION – 2nd to 12th MARCH 1932 – TOWN HALL SYDNEY. Perforated XXmm and coloured in pale orange and black, it measures XXmm x XXmm. A part of the Sydney

Figure 1

Figure 2

48 - Stamp News

Vito Milana

Figure 3 city skyline adorns the bottom part of the label with the Town Hall prominently captured to the right. An orange lightning bolt traverses down the cinderella, too. The 1932 exhibition was attended to in great numbers, with 31 exhibitors present, all driven by a unified purpose to advertise modern wonders in radio and electricity. It is interesting to note that the label in Figure 2 offers the slight variant of the documented title of the event Radio and Electrical Exhibition to Electrical and Radio Exhibition to Electrical and Radio Exhibition, securing emphasis on the former group of products. I welcome any reader who has other labels celebrating different years for this event, since its inception and celebration in 1924.

All-Electrical Exposition was celebrated, 90 years ago, and, across the course of three weeks, the various uses of electricity were showcased. These have been documented as ranging from household appliances to railways and switchboards. Some other newspaper reports across Victoria also mentioned that the event was a success, with many products ordered and purchased. The one shilling entrance fee into the Exhibition Buildings helped support and fund some of the costs associated with the various displays housed in Melbourne across the days. The cinderella label illustrated in Figure 4 promotes the All-Electrical Exhibition, and presents the text: SEE THE ELECTRICAL WONDERS AT

All-Electrical Exposition

The two different cinderella labels that promote the similarly named All-Electrical Exhibition are more common than the previously explored two. Figure 3 presents the text: ALL-ELECTRICAL EXHIBITION Sept. 10th to Oct 1st â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ADMISSION 1/- EXHIBITION BLDS. MELBOURNE. This multicoloured label measures XXmm by XXmm and is perforated XX on all sides. The left illustrated a god-like figure, riding the clouds, with a charge of electricity beaming from his right hand. It has been cited postmarked on the front of a cover dated 22nd July 1927. This marked the first year that the

Figure 4 Stamp News - 49

Cinderella Corner

Figure 5 THE ALL-ELECTRICAL EXHIBITION â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SEPT. 14TH TO OCT. 5TH AT EXHIBITION BUILDINGS. In a similar vein to the godly figure discussed in Figure 3, this cinderella illustrates a gigantic robot to the left, towering over the illuminated Melbourne Exhibition Buildings. The yellow, black, white and blue label dates 1935, is perforated X, and measures XXmm by XXmm. Figures 5 and 6 collectively offer a rather ordinary worn cover, postmarked 5th August 1935, with and example of the label affixed and cancelled on the reverse flap. The sender, WARBURTON, FRANKI (MELB.) LTD, was an electrical appliance store in Bourke Street, Melbourne. It sold a vast range of products including car radios, household appliances, and Stromberg Carlson products. Some further research revealed that the company showcased and sold some of its products throughout the course of the 22 day event. It is also interesting that posters adorned shop fronts and public places throughout Melbourne that presented identical images to the 1935 cinderella label. While 8 years after the first All-Electrical Exhibition, 1935

50 - Stamp News

actually marked the second and final time that the event ran. This second holding was motivated by the organising committee to showcase to the community the incredible ways that the use of electricity had changed over the course of nearly a decade. As such, no other labels exist between these years, nor after 1935. This observation is particularly noteworthy: many cinderella enthusiasts, myself included, collect advertising labels detailing upcoming events that occur over sequential years. Occasionally frustrating gaps arrive and some years are represented by empty spaces and question marks in collections. The research, too, often muddles the course, and the hunt continues for apparently elusive labels that do not exist. These labels have resulted in such actions for a number of collectors, yet it is hopefully helpful to some that the AllElectrical Exhibition Melbourne labels are complete as a pair of two; one for 1927 and another for 1935. Any further information regarding exhibitions held across the country that celebrated the feats of radio and electricity and welcomed.

Figure 6

The world’s very largest and friendliest Stamp Bulletin Board - with a strong Aussie flavour! A fast-growing true Community which started in 2007. Stampboards now has about 15,000 real members from 150 countries - who have made near five MILLION posts, on over 60,000 topics. See 100,000s of high resolution colour photos, showing rare stamps, errors, discoveries, cinderellas and new issues etc. We get over 4 MILLION hits each month. Zero cost: www.stampboards.com or facebook.com/stampboards A vast array of leading dealers and collectors are active members. The Presidents of both APTA and the APF are members. Senior International Stamp Judges are members. Catalogue producers, stamp magazine publishers, and leading auctioneers are all active members. Masses of stamp club secretaries worldwide are members, and promote their clubs and events free - does YOURS??? All entirely FREE. If you can two-finger type you are all set - simple and intuitive. Discuss EVERY aspect of stamps, from ANY country, and get instant answers and input. Show and share your photos, ask questions, get advice from experts. Buy or sell or trade the stamps you need - ALL FREE. Loads of fun threads, jokes and general discussions too. HUNDREDS of eBay crooks, cons and forgers have been exposed and expelled from eBay by our member reports and Detective work - essential reading. Monthly competitions with very valuable stamp prizes. Pop by today. It is like your ‘local stamp club’ - but you do NOT need to leave your home!

Join today, membership is free! No fees for the first 12 months, open to all traders in collectables, part-time or full-time. AAA Stamps PO Box 1050, Warners Bay, NSW, 2282 Ph: 0432 540 760 aaastamps@yahoo.com.au www.aaastamps.com.au

A.G.T. Devine 56 Gardner Circuit, Singleton Heights, NSW 2330 Ph: 02 6573 4209 alan.devine@devalri.com www.devalri.com

Robert D. Andersen 141 Monash Rd, Tarragindi, QLD 4121 Ph: 07 3892 7066 daleandersen@bigpond.com.au

Ace Stamp Auctions PO Box 2076 Ellenbrook, Western Australia, 6069 (08) 9297 3040 or email stampdealer@iinet.net

A-One Stamps - M Greive PO 82, Edgecliffe, NSW, 2027 Ph: 02 9362 3636 mgreive@bigpond.net.au www.aonestamps.com

Edenzac Stamps: Tim Papadopoulos Ph: 03 9791 7733 edenzac@optushome.com.au Edlins of Canberra Eddie J Cummings GPO Box 289, Canberra, ACT 2601 Ph: 02 6248 7859 edlins@tpgi.com.au www.edlins.com.au

Falcon Stamps PO Box 571, Milsons Point, NSW, 1565 Ph: 02 9299 1300 rwaugh@bigpond.net.au

Gold Coast Stamp Traders Glyn Fairbairn PO Box 275, Currumbin, QLD 4223 Ph: 07 5533 9582 www.goldcoststamptraders.com.au sales@ goldcoastsamptraders.com.au

Stephen Joe

Peter Barrett

GPO Box 302, Suva, Fiji Ph: 679 3319183 stephenj@connect.com.fj

PO Box 5, Dover, UK CT16 1YQ Ph: 013 0482 9827 pjbchelse@aol.com www.stamo-centre.co.uk

John Hurtado/KGV Collector

Bexley Stamps - M. Hill PO Box 92 Doonside, NSW 2767 Ph: 02 9920 5057 sales@bexleystamps.com.au www.bexleystamps.com.au

Blue Owls Stamps - Jude Koch 9 Yarra Street, Suite 1207 (12th Floor, Suite 07) South Yarra Vic 3141 Ph: 03 9826 1202 jude@blueowlsstamps.com.au www.blueowlsstamps.com.au

Grant Carter PO Box 16, Northcote, VIC 3020 Ph: 03 9480 2193

Alf Clark PO Box 53, Box Hill, VIC 3128 Ph: 03 9808 9717

John Cornelius PO Box 23, Magill, SA, 5072 joda99@bigpond.net.au

Ken Cowden PO Box 108, Bateman’s Bay, NSW 2536 Ph: 02 4472 5231 Kenbetty@bordernet.com.au

PO Box 40, Russell Island, QLD 4184 kgv_stamps@live.com.au http://australiankgvusedstamps.blogspot.com

Kennedy Stamps P/L Suite 706a, 250 Pitt St, Sydney NSW 2000 Tel: + 61 2 92646168 Fax: + 61 2 92645969 stamps@kennedystamps.com. www.kennedystamps.com.au

Dr William L. Mayo (Booklets) Ph: 02 9918 6825 mayoinavalon@yahoo.com.au

Kevin Morgan Stamps & Coins PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Ph:0425 795 693 kevinmorgan2@live.com www.kevinmorgan.com.au

Maree Nieuwenhuizen PO BOX 457, Bayswater, VIC 3153 Ph: 03 9762 1848 maree@mpnstamps.com

Mike Lee 7 Colbury Rd, Bayswater Nth, VIC 3153 Ph: 03 9729 5855 mlphilatelics@bigpond.com

P & D Nicholls PO Box 172, Glenbrook, NSW 2773 Ph: 02 4739 6184 panddnicholls@bigpond.com

Pacific Coast Philatelics Owen Pennells, PO Box 3343, Bundaberg, QLD, 4670 Ph: 0427 551 207

Ray Pinniger PO Box 9008, Scoresby, VIC 3179 Ph: 03 9753 3520 bevvyc@optusnet.com.au

Chris Snelling Stamps PO Box 121, Kotara Fair, NSW 2289 Ph: 02 4952 8205 orcstamp@bigpond.net.au www.orchidstamps.com

Glen Stephens 4 The Tor Walk, Castlecrag, NSW 2068 PH: 02 9958 1333 glen@glenstephens.com www.glenstephens.com

Sydney Philatelics Graeme Fudge PO Box 122, Milton, NSW 2538 Ph: 02 4455 4011 info@sydphil.com www.stampsaustralia.com.au

Lyndsay Tooley PO Box 441, Norfolk Is. NSW 2899 Ph: 06 7232 3778 stamps@ninet.nf

Con Vayanos 64/3030 The Boulevard, Emerald Lakes, Carrara, QLD, 4211 Ph: 07 5578 1744 convayanos@hotmail.com

ACTS

PO Box 1290 Upwey, VIC 3158

Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Australia At Finlandia 2017 Finlandia 2017 was a FEPA (Federation of European Philatelic Associations) exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Finland the country. As well as having exhibits from Europe, Finland also invited two other countries, Australia and the United States, to send a commissioner and judge along with exhibits. The exhibition included the postcard class for the first time at a FEPA exhibition which was well supported by Australians and two New Zealanders (who were honorary Australians for this exhibition). The exhibition was celebrating the 100th anniversary of the independence of Finland and is part of yearlong celebrations in Finland. The Figure 1 exhibition was held in Tampere, the second largest city in Finland with a population of 250,000 odd. It was an industrial city that is located between two lakes, one quite large, with a small river between

Figure 2 52 - Stamp News

them known as the rapids as it drops some 18 feet. I gather it is a growing city as people move to it from Helsinki and surrounding areas. The exhibition is the fourth large exhibition held in Finland, the others being in 1956, 1988 and 1995. I well remember Finlandia 1995 as it was the first time I exhibit internationally. It also had one of the most unusual medals I have ever received (Figure 1). As you can see the design is quite unusual and is based on a letter. The reverse has the markings for an early Finnish letter, but I unsure of the significance of the reclining figure or the lips. The

Daryl Fuller

Philatelic Development Officer, APF

Figure 3 lips however, represent the medal level which in my case was a large vermeil. I think they must be one of the last medals to include precious metals (much the same way Olympic medals are required to). In this case, the lips are gold plated silver and are actually hallmarked. Even my non-philatelic wife liked this particular medal. As to later medals containing precious metals the Australia Sydney Explorer 2005 medals were made of solid silver, but this was thanks to sponsorship by AGL. The 2017 Finlandia medal is shown in Figure 2 and whilst quite an attractive medal, is not on a par for unusual as with the early medal. The medals are also quite heavy at 500gr and is the reason the commissioner needs a good weight allowance or the assistance of fellow Australians Figure 4

at an exhibition. The organising committee was quite proud of several innovations tried at Finlandia 2017. The first was a picture postcard class introduced at the international level for the first time, and this is discussed further below. The class was well supported by Australia (and two New Zealanders) and our commissioner/ judge David Figg (shown in Figure 3 judging with Bengt Bengtsson of Sweden) is a well known postcard judge. Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assistant commissioner was John Sadler of Sydney. Another interesting innovation was the use of various technology for judging. This included evaluation of the exhibits by the international jury electronically with iPads,

Stamp News - 53

Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation by scanning the exhibits and posting the scans for the Juryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use beforehand. It was even better for the Jury as they got to keep the iPads after judging. On a personal basis, and in discussion with a couple of the judges I believe the use of iPads worked well and is worth thinking about more widely. It certainly aids with the consolidation of results and should remove basic arithmetic errors. As to getting the scans beforehand I do not like this innovation. About 75% of exhibitors supplied the scans but of course as a record of the exhibit they are not necessarily good because exhibits were changed after the Figure 5 scans were sent. Also, the scans were sent well before the exhibition started which makes it hard for someone putting together a new or major revised exhibit. There are arguments for and against the use of scans. It should allow the judge to provide more time to evaluate ex-

Figure 6 54 - Stamp News

hibits and find the good material, and better understand treatment. However, it is also open to possible nit-picking by a judge which is definitely not a good trend. I still believe that the rules and guidelines for exhibiting mean that you evaluate an exhibit in the frames. Otherwise we could end up trying virtual exhibitions with all their inherent pluses and minuses. South Africa has already trialled a virtual one-frame exhibition. The exhibition was held in Tampere Hall (Figure 4) which was a large concert hall-like venue spread over four levels. The exhibits were spread over four levels and the dealers over the top three. Figure 5 shows a high shot of the Traditional and Postal History classes and although it looks quiet, in general there were a reasonable number of people looking at the exhibits. The literature was readily available to view and Figure 6 shows

Daryl Fuller

Philatelic Development Officer, APF

Figure 7 APF Secretary Ian McMahon looking at the books available. Australians try to support all international exhibitions and we are well known for travelling long distances to go to an exhibition. We especially try to support exhibitions where we receive a special invitation and at Finlandia I counted 20 Australians including spouses, and may have missed one or two. Figure 7 shows three executives of the APF together with British collector Mike Smith having a break between dealers and exhibits (I would note that all paid their own way to the exhibition). I had hoped for more dealers at the exhibition with there being a number of auction houses plus a range of Nordic dealers and one or two from other countries. I would have liked to see a range of English, French and Dutch dealers but this wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to be. Despite this, I found a few items for my own collections including a Figure 8

Leeward Islands stationery item that I had not seen before and was a big surprise. I also found a number of items for fellow collectors, as such exhibitions are good for getting usage to countries like Finland, which are not easily found in other countries. Figure 8 shows a typical dealer stand at the exhibition with many boxes of covers to go through. I found a few items at this particular dealer as did others I know. Not all dealers are so organised and I spent two hours at one dealer going through three large boxes of mixed world covers, which was worth the effort, and with 30% off it was even better as the covers were priced from about â&#x201A;Ź1-20 each. The other nice event was a local flea market put on by local collectors and part-time dealers in a local restaurant, where I know many Australians spent hours going through boxes. I bought a number of Australian covers at 50 Euro cents each that will be repatriated to Austra-

Stamp News - 55

Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation lia where they are worth considerably more, but more importantly will find a good home. Whilst there were a number of good usages from the around 1970 to Finland, Figure 9 is an excellent example of the type of item you can’t find in Australia, modern International stamps correctly used, and at about 70c Australian a real bargain. Tampere is home to the Finnish Postal Museum which had a special display of stamps from the Queen’s collection. It was not possible to take pictures of the exhibit but it included a very nice unused 2d Post Office Mauritius that looked as fresh as the day it was printed. It also had a number of other rarities Figure 9 and was well worth a look. The Postal Museum was part of a larger group of museums and included a fascinating toy museum and others related to Finnish history. Figure 10 is a picture of full scale model of the first plane that was attempted to be flown in Finland in 1911 by Aldolf Aarno of Tampere. He failed but attempted again in 1914 where the plane crashed. The model was a joint venture between the Museum and the Tampere

Figure 10 56 - Stamp News

Aviation club’s Grey Eagles for the 90th anniversary. There were 10 Australian entries at the exhibition with one Australian receiving a gold medal, Bernie Beston, for his Ecuador Postal Stationery. The Palmares was a fun event with the main course being reindeer, which tastes a lot like kangaroo but tends to be more tender. It was hosted by two Finnish actors who are shown in Figure 11 together with Sydney exhibitor Linda lee. They were dressed as an early postman and a post lady, who sorted the mail I believe. The Grand Prix D’Honneur winner was Jean Voruz with his exhibit of Geneva Postal Services 1839-1862 and he is shown in Figure 12 with his prize, a piece of Finnish art glass. Overall the exhibits were quite strong and it was a pleasure to look through such strong European entries. Overall Finlandia was a well run exhibition with great exhibits and an interesting range of dealers. The innovations in judging were worth trying and it will be interesting to see how they are adopted

Daryl Fuller

Philatelic Development Officer, APF

Figure 11 elsewhere. I know the Australian’s enjoyed the exhibition and once again by being present in numbers we continue to impact world philately in a positive way. If you get a chance to go to an international exhibition, especially in a place where you haven’t been it is always worthwhile so start planning for 2018 where there are FIP exhibitions in both Prague and Kuala Lumpur. I can’t resist adding one last image from Tampere, some local art, in Figure 13.

Society) and is given for the year of recommendation. The Hall of Fame was first opened in 1989 and includes three Australians. Australia’s most recent awardee is Tom Frommer MAP (shown in Figure 14 holding his plaque), well known ACT–based exhibitor, author and judge. Tom has been collecting Australian airmails for over 50 years. In that time, he has put together world class exhibits of Australian airmails, Papua and New Guinea airmails, Australian airmail vignettes, and an exhibit on famous pilots from around the world, receiving gold and large gold medals at international level. He was also co-editor of the Australian Airmail Catalogue for the last few editions, as well as publishing a book on Australia’s most valuable label – the Ross Smith vignette. Tom is also an FIP qualified judge. Tom joins two other well-known Australian aerophilatelists, Ernie Chrome (1990) and Nelson Eustis (1991) as awardees. It is a well deserved award for many decades of collecting and research.

Australian Elected to the Aerophilatelic Hall of Fame The Aerophilatelic Hall of Fame is international in scope. It honours those who have contributed significantly to the accumulation of aerophilatelic knowledge, to interest and participation in aerophilately or rendered outstanding service to national or international organized aerophilately. The names of those honoured are inscribed on the Aerophilatelic Hall of Fame plaque at the World Airmail Research Centre in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. The award is given for a lifetime of service to Aerophilately and/or to the AAMS (American Air Mail Figure 12 Stamp News - 57

Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Postcard Collecting and Exhibiting Gets a Boost Postcard collecting, and now exhibiting, started off as a common sideline for many stamp collectors. A few collectors applied their philatelic skills to collecting and decided to start exhibiting. They developed rules and it became a separate class at exhibitions with a separate jury. Over the years the rules have been refined and in conjunction with New Zealand the two countries have a common rules basis for exhibiting. There is no longer a separate jury in Australia for postcards with the jurors being integrated into the philatelic jury. Although, it should be noted that you still have to be a qualified postcard judge to be on the jury. There was a postcard class at Finlandia 2017, which was a first for a FEPA exhibition. It was a successful debut albeit with a few differences in judging between Europe and Australia/New Zealand. The positive news follows the submission of a discussion paper prepared by David Figg, in conjunction with New Zealand, on postcard exhibiting. This

Figure 14 paper was presented to the FIP Board at a meeting they held at the end of the exhibition. The Board has decided that Postcards will become an experimental class at some future FIP exhibitions. Most thought that this was a quite positive step and will bring even more collectors and exhibitors to exhibitions. I will keep you informed when I hear of any further developments or when the first trial will be.

Figure 13 58 - Stamp News

Some Important Literature Released at Finlandia 2017 I always like to look for new literature at exhibitions as it can save a fortune on postage these days by bringing the books back as luggage. In this case, there were two important books released as they are major works on postal rates (of Finland) and Aerophilately (The Netherlands). Suomen Postitaksat (Finnish Postage Rates) 1875-2001 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; This book has five authors (Harri Ala-Honkola, Hannu Kauppi, Juhani Kerppola, Ari Muhonen and Esko Seitsonen) and was published by the Postal Museum of Finland in 2016. Although dated 2016 I am not sure when it was released as the

Daryl Fuller

Philatelic Development Officer, APF

Figures 15 & 16 Philatelic Federation of Finland was doing a good trade in them and it may have actually been released more recently. The book is pictured in Figure 15 and is a hard bound book of 400 pages published in full colour. It is well laid out with descriptions in both Finnish and English and is relatively easy to follow. It has an index, list of abbreviations and a list of references (which are in Finnish). If you have any interest in Finnish postal history you will need this book. The pages even have colour coordination printed in the top right corner to mark chapters. This is the type of reference that I wish was available for all countries, as it includes airmail rates which are a personal interest of mine. This book belongs in all major society philatelic libraries, and anyone with an interest in Finland and cost €35. I do not have ordering details but you could try the Philatelic Federation of Finland (filatelistiforum.org) or try an email to sfff@sci.fi. (Netherlands) Aviation and Airmail Encyclopaedia Volumes 1 & 2 – the authors of this two volume opus are J.L.C.M. Tschroots and H.H.C. TSchrootsBoer. These two volumes represent over 50 years of research by the authors, one of whom I met at

Finlandia. Volume 1 was published in 1990 I believe and covers Netherlands airmails up to 1935. It is hard bound with 768 pages and 450 illustrations. Volume 2 was published in 2016 and covers the period from 19361945 in 932 pages (Figure 17). The volumes cover not just Dutch based airlines but those of other countries that serviced the Netherlands and its colonies. It has information from official postal circulars and most importantly postal rates from 1920 – 1945. Volume 1 has its illustrations in B&W whilst Volume 2 is in full colour. The one drawback to the two volumes is that they are written only in Dutch but the maps are quite useful and the rates are relatively easy to follow. Given that there are many collectors out there of Dutch extraction it shouldn’t be too hard to find someone to assist with translation when needed. Given the importance of KLM as an airline to the development of airmail routes these two volumes are a must for aerophilatelists. Volume 1 costs €27.50 and Volume 2 €55, with a special price of €75 for the pair. Postage to Australia is €35 for the pair but it may pay to check this with the author as the two books weigh a total of 4.3kgs without packing. Payment can be made by direct bank transfer or by PayPal (the latter with a 5% surcharge). The author’s contact is tschroots1@ zonnet.nl. If you need any further information about stamp collecting see www.apf.org.au or contact me for information pertaining to this article at Darryl.fuller@ home.netspeed.com.au. Stamp News - 59

Market Matters AP adds CUTS in new stamps

Australia Post have now added “micro-cuts” to new issue stamps released in self-adhesive booklets. The first such issue was the June 7, 2017 $1 Lions Club Centenary issue. These “micro cuts” within the stamp The PO’s hyped “PRIORITY disaster. design already are present in the alleged “Priority” labels as “PRIORITY” a waste of money. many readers may realise. The recipient was going overseas for 2 months this This interesting new development is outlined in week, and urged me to get his stamp to him URthe new Stamp Bulletin of “July/August 2017”. A GENTLY. My last 2017 Registered sending to him in photo of the current alleged “PRIORITY” stamp Melbourne took about 2 months, for which he berated label is nearby. These were introduced a year or so me for being “incompetent”, so I very foolishly sent back by the now departed, and very much unlament- his next stamp via the such hyped “Priority” system. ed Ahmed Fahour, ex-CEO of Australia Post. As you can clearly see from the illustration of one Mr Fahour leaves the PO as you read this, with a nearby, they have slits in them at various angles etc, double digit Million $ Golden Parachute payout etc, and in all parts of the label, to stop folks peeling them and left AP stuck with all these kooky ideas of his, off, and reusing them. Stampboards members ran that frankly do not work. The “Priority” labels were timed tests, and “Priority” mail appeared to go same claimed to speed the $1.50 “First Class” letter mail speed or slower than regular letters, posted same time between capital cities to next day in most cases. to same address, so why would anyone bother?! One I posted Registered “Priority” near a week Australia Post believes these slits will “improve back to Melbourne has still not arrived. As I type the adhesion” of the stamps (huh?!) and also says it this, it has taken over FOUR days to move from Cas- will make it “harder to re-use stamps that have estlecrag to the nearby Granville Mail Centre where it caped cancels.” As a vast % of letter mail these days will sit all weekend. Please play along with the woes receives no cancels, it seems bog obvious to me that of mail users in this country, and see yourself how if the PO did their job, and ensured mail got a cancel, long the laughable “next day” service SYD-MEL they’d not need to mutilate our attractive Commemotakes to arrive - tinyurl.com/APOjoke rative stamps. It is not rocket science to ensure mail gets a cancel, as the machines are designed to do just that. Mr Fahour’s $500 million White Elephant sorting and cancelling machinery, purchased in IKEA kit form from Netherlands, and tinkered with here so that it barely functioned, of course means sorting AND cancelling is ad hoc, and basically does not work.

Email the Minister on these.

I count TWELVE slices in this label. 60 - Stamp News

If you do NOT want to see your future commemorative stamps sliced and mutilated, the Federal Minister for Communication and Arts is Senator Mitch

Glen Stephens

Do Ozzies want THIS mutilation?

The Vandalism Commenced June 7. Fifield - minister@communications.gov.au and senator.fifield@aph.gov.au - contact him. If you are Victorian, he is YOUR Senator. Suggest they CANCEL stamps, as they did well for 167 years - not cut slits in them! Slits on stamps is nothing new of course, but is seldom used - probably as global POs are capable of cancelling most mail - and know collectors hate cutup stamps. The only country presently using them I can think of, off the top of my head, is the UK, and they only use them on the little Machin Definitives, and NOT on Commemorative stamps as Australia is now doing. Look at the blue current GB Machin head stamp illustrated nearby. Those 2 huge and ugly “PaperClip” U-shape defacements are on near all letter rate stamps sold in the UK. and on the higher values too, right up to £3 and £5. Do you want all YOUR future

mint stamp purchases mutilated and ugly like this? For no good reason? The Royal Mail press release in early 2009 claimed it would be impossible to peel these off an envelope that has not been cancelled, and re-use them again on the mail. The official explanation was these would: “act in the same way as retail price stickers, causing a stamp to rip if you try to pull it off an envelope.”

Hmmmm. If this is such a brilliant idea why aren’t other First World countries like Germany and France and the USA and Canada etc, slicing up the stamps they issue, and sell to the public? Why? Because it is dumb, and it is clearly NOT necessary, and achieves nothing other than have folks stop buying New Issues.

MILLIONS of “no gum” UK sold.

Please assure Senator Fifield that this hare-brained idea will have near ZERO effect on stamps being re-used. In the UK many MILLIONS of no gum Machin heads stamps with ugly slits in them are openly sold on eBay alone. This seller as you can see offers them in quantities of up to 5,000 units a time tinyurl.com/NogumUK - this one seller has sold very Stamp News - 61

Market Matters many 100s of lots. Why? As the UK, like Australia, has in the past decade got lazy and inefficient, and near stopped cancelling stamps. They DUMBLY assumed these 4 x “paper clip” style “U” shape slits would somehow stop stamps being soaked off and re-used. The MILLIONS of stamps being openly re-sold after being removed from Charity and office on-paper kiloware, proves this is utter nonsense. British Post Offices do seem to possess hand cancellers and they used to use them all the time. Nice neat cds cancels on UK stamps can be a delight to see, especially to fine outer “twisted This is MY kind of cancel! barbed wire” modern types. Why not of what this one seller is offering now - tinyurl.com/ ask all offices to use them? Netherlands withdrew them all this year and told to use only DodgyMachin - hope The Bill knocks on his door soon, and eBay bans him: report the sales on - tipens - to total uproar, and they were all re-made in nyurl.com/eBayfakes weeks! If eBay gets 5 or 10 reports on any given item Real COST to Royal Mail in lost revenue for each they WILL generally take notice. They usually warn million First Class (65p) stamps illegally re-used the user and remove the lot. Sellers getting several is £650,000. eBay alone probably sells 10 million such removed lots are in trouble. Let’s use ‘people no gum stamps a year, and for £6.5 million a year I power’ to stop this material getting offered. Everysuspect PO can buy a lot of cancelling machinery? Across the wider market you can probably treble that one “hoping” others act, will get nothing done - like most things in life! It takes teamwork and a Comloss. Let’s say £20 million a year lost, as they can’t munity Spirit, and the dodgy and misleading lots will be bothered to cancel stamps. be FAR less. Re-using stamps that have already been used on The same thing occurs in Australia with no gum the mail is illegal, and punishable by prison sentences for defrauding revenue. So I can never understand stamps, and on eBay, vast quantities of clearly stolen why Post Offices, who all have large Security Forces, Post Office new product is offered each hour of each day. Pre-paid Registered and Express envelopes do not aggressively get these sellers removed by and parcel satchels of all sizes and types and quantieBay AND prosecuted. Again sheer laziness, and ties. Near all clearly stolen and fenced, and if the PO if we are talking tens of Millions in annual revenue Security got off their backsides some prosecutions losses, it seems a no-brainer to me. would easily result. I have discussed this with my Postmaster, who Millions in PO Revenue losses. carefully did the maths, and most of the eBay sellers This UK eBay seller “collectsrus2015” has been of the vast numbers of these satchels end up netting offering these for years. And has had several eBay WAY less than the lowest unit price he can officially user name changes - generally a sign of someone with something to hide. Cheekily sold as “NO GUM buy them at the highest discount PO level. Most are BUT READY TO USE” Look at the huge conga line thus clearly stolen ex AP, and again the PO Security 62 - Stamp News

Glen Stephens

$ Millions stolen a year. team appear totally asleep at the wheel. All these products have unique tracking codes, and the PO here has shown for years they have zero systems in place to record what codes are on each factory box, so when stolen from warehouses etc, those codes can be invalidated or investigated. Or far smarter still, have the stolen tracked product trigger an e-alert when mailed, so the foolish users of them can then almost certainly score themselves a surprise visit from the Federal Police with a Search Warrant, as the lodgement PO shows up on all the tracking. The buyers of such product in bulk quantity, at way under PO wholesale cost price, must clearly know the goods they are buying are most likely stolen or dodgy at best, and any business using such material places themselves and their recipients are at risk of Police action if caught.

postal inspectors to pinpoint the producers and sellers, and shut them down. But the sellers continue to cover their tracks in ways that are predictable, and vast numbers of fake “current” stamps are being offloaded. Linn’s Stamp News quoted Larry Plante, a revenue fraud analyst for the Cincinnati office of the USPS Postal Inspection Service, saying that today’s stamp counterfeiters use two methods to get their bogus wares into the United States via online sites such as eBay. “The first is hacking an inactive account,” said Plante. The hacker presumably changes the contact information and then uses the account to sell the stamps to unsuspecting buyers. In the second scenario, a so-called middleman is used. Plante explained “A middleman is someone who will list the stamps for sale using their own eBay account for a third party. When the stamps are sold, they relay the sale information to the third party. The third party sends the stamps directly to the buyer.” “The middleman is located within the USA, while the third party is in China. The middleman can get a commission or flat fee for their services. I don’t know how the money is exchanged.”

Total Fakes of USA stamps.

Postal forgeries are heavily on the rise for USA stamps. At last count, 40 different modern counterfeit stamps have been listed in the Scott U.S. Specialised Catalogue. Postal counterfeits of U.S. stamps were listed for the first time in the 2013 edition of the U.S. Specialised Catalogue, published in October 2012. Today’s web of stamp counterfeiting has spread far and wide, making it even more difficult for USPS

Total fakes peddled on eBay. Stamp News - 63

Market Matters Plante at USPS also said that the sellers of fraudulent stamps, once they’ve completed an official sale, will email the buyer and then: “offer more fake stamps at discounted prices, outside of eBay.” While this is serious business for Plante and his colleagues, their efforts occasionally yield humorous results. For example, Plante described one buyer who emailed the seller through eBay asking for reassurance that these stamps were not fake. The seller replied with the following laughable response:

Forgery at left, Genuine at right

“We ship from China.”

"Our company is located in California. We signed a contract with USPS. We ship from China because of the tax issues, so we ship all the stamps to China first and ship to you. You can check all the stamps at local post office. If you find any fake or fraud, tell us and we will refund you immediately without return. Thanks!" eBay as usual does nothing to stop obvious fake stamps being sold, as they and PayPal make the same fees when forged stamps are sold, as when genuine ones are. This is why buying many stamp areas on eBay is truly for the totally Clueless Bunnies, as so much fake stuff is peddled with impunity. eBay sellers “cardrushinc” and “otktcg” have for months been selling apparently endless lots of current issue sheets of 49¢ “Forever” stamps at $US795 for 2000 “or make offer” - face value $US980. After the eBay/paypal fees of about 10%, they end up with about $US675 nett when some ‘bargain hunter’ offers them $750. So seller netts about 25% under face. Sound like legit stamps to you?

Near impossible to pick Fakes.

The recent Asian forgeries are of superb quality, it is reported. A sheet of a genuine recent DIWALI “Forever” stamps and a forged sheet were given to a “Linn’s” Senior Editor, and a sister magazine “Coin World” Editor, and they were asked to specify WHICH one was forged, in their view. They both selected the Fake as the real article. 64 - Stamp News

See the image nearby for how convincing the fakes are. Good strong colour, and good diecutting. Linns Editor Charles Snee reported many months back these were also being sold on eBay by “cardrushinc” and seller was contacted by them to no response, and so far no Uncle Sam or eBay intervention to stop them. You can see many buyers of these stamps have left negative feedbacks that the stamps were fake or bogus - tinyurl.com/cardsrushinc As usual eBay does nothing in such cases, unless it gets a LOT of members reporting it, as after all they make a TON of fees out of selling these outright bogus and illegal items. As you can readily see, like many conmen on eBay they make such dodgy material auctions “Private” so one cannot see the items that were purchased. Only as the Negatives mention fake stamps would you know. The seller as can be seen, has a legit main business selling sports and collector cards etc. See ANY “Private” auction for stamps, and run a mile.

Trump even makes Stamp Magazines.

Linn’s Stamp News reported June 2 that the Human Hairpiece, Donald Trump has incurred the wrath of the United States Postal Service (USPS) workers - which may well signal mail strikes, go-slows, and union and service disruption ahead? Their report said in part -

Glen Stephens The President’s budget would eliminate cost of living adjustments (COLA) on FERS retirement benefits, reduce COLAs for current civil-service retirees, and base all future retirement pay on a high five-year average instead of the current three-year average.

Street mailboxes to be postal centres?

Trump now upsetting USPS Unions. The Trump budget for fiscal year 2018 says it offers the USPS $46 billion in “savings” by reducing mail deliveries and hitting postal workers’ benefits. Not surprisingly, the USA postal unions are in full battle mode with the President. “This budget proposal is Robin Hood in reverse,” claimed American Postal Workers Union president Mark Dimondstein. “It robs from the workers to give more and more to the wealthy. Taken in their entirety, these are draconian attacks on hard working postal workers and our families” the union chief said.

Pension contributions to rise.

“Sadly, the new administration seems to have ignored the growing consensus in the mailing industry over ways to strengthen the Postal Service,” said Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers. “If enacted, the Trump proposals would threaten the long-term viability of the Postal Service and the huge industry it supports” Rolando said. What is infuriating the unions is a proposal to increase pension contributions by workers by a total of 6% during the next six years. Specifically, Trump wants worker contributions to the Federal Employee Retirement System to rise by 1% every year for the next six years. That would result in “a pay-cut of thousands of dollars a year for each FERS postal employee” the unions say.

Linn’s separately reported this month that the United States Postal Service may be experimenting with one way to do away with postage stamps in the future, and having street mail boxes much of the work! At least that’s the suggestion being made on a YouTube video, that touts a proposed experimental postal project that would place a small electronic box on the top of those familiar blue mail roadside mail collection boxes one sees right across the USA, akin to the red mail boxes in the UK and Australia. USPS Officials have acknowledged that the Postal Service is planning to test the “Smart Blue Box” concept, created by MRM/McCann, a New York advertising agency, but offered no details about when and where the project might begin. A comment about the video, posted on YouTube May 29, calls the device “Voice Stamp.” It describes it as an “upcoming new feature of the Smart Blue Box from the U.S. Postal Service,” saying it “will get rid of the antiquated stamp, and make postage paperless. A completely new way to mail letters and packages - without stamps.” Asked to comment, the US Postal Service described the device as a “prototype” that “combines the power of the Post Office with the convenience of the iconic blue USPS collection boxes.” According to the video, the solar-powered device would allow a customer to ask whether mail has been collected from that box. It contains a scale that would allow a small parcel to be weighed for mailing and apparently a device that would produce a mailing label with postage to be affixed to a parcel. No stamps would be used. “All you have to do is ask,” says the USPS in its explanation of the device. “Equipped with the latest artificial intelligence and connected to multiple postal computer programs, the Smart Blue Box is the latest demonstration of Stamp News - 65

Market Matters seamless customer service,” it says. “You can ask if a carrier has collected the box already, or for a delivery date and time of a package,” the Postal Service continued. “You can even use it to calculate postage with the scale. It can tell you or text you directions to the closest [postal] retail location, along with specific hours. In a future state, it could deliver a postage code to write on the package for immediate drop-off, using voice recognition to charge your account.” However as Linn’s commented - given the US Postal Service’s current financial troubles, it isn’t clear from the sparse information provided, how the USPS could finance widespread installation and maintenance of the devices.

Watch for these in bulk lots!

The 1910 New Zealand ½d green KEVII overprint OFFICIAL is not uncommon. SG 073 is catalogued at just 40p used - i.e. basically packet maker bundleware material, and the kind of stamp most of us would never give even a second glance. So why is a New Zealand dealer offering the example shown nearby for $NZ10,000? And 2 others too, at similar high prices? Why - because the overprint reads DOWNWARDS and not upwards, as most of the other copies of this stamp in circulation do. That makes them SG 073a, cat £3,000. New

Mailboxes to become Daleks?! Zealand dealer Richard Wooders showed me these recently from the Frank Parkinson collection, and whilst his prices are as usual over there, stratospheric for such things, are not often offered I am sure. Please excuse the scan quality - that is the best Richard could offer me! Cancelled “Port Ahuriri” on 7.3.1911, it is Expertised by both the Royal Philatelic Society New Zealand, and the Royal Philatelic Society London in 1990 and 1991 respectively. This one shown is said to be the finest example known of the small number that are recorded. Well worth keeping this error in mind - you might well see one in a kid’s collection!

Faroe Islands Visit.

WHY is this priced $10,000? 66 - Stamp News

I have been most fortunate to have travelled to over 150 countries around the globe on holiday, but never before to The Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. For years in the early 1980s I took out 2 facing pages in “Stamp News” styled as “The Faroes King” selling all the stamp issues from there - some then were quite pricey. So late May embarked on a pretty mad flurry of 36 hours of flights to there, via Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Abu Dhabi, Dublin, Oslo and Copenhangen, that took literally DAYS to complete, with only 1 hotel night along the way! I’m really am getting too

Glen Stephens

Grass roof houses everywhere. REAL countries make beer! old for all this stuff. The good thing is most planes these days have WiFi all the way, so for a flat $US20 each direction, I could send emails, and surf the web, and buy and sell stamps, and post on stampboards etc for the 24 hours from Australia to Dublin and back, at 40,000 feet, at fast speed. A tiny place of less than 50,000 people, but they have their own banknotes, passports, language, beer, airline, Flag, number plates, and Government, and are NOT an EU member, oddly. There are only 4 barely passable hotels there, and we got the very last room, as booked late as always! The Faroes is NOT as many feel - “just a part of Denmark”. When you arrive from Denmark by plane, you can buy Duty Free on the aircraft, and at the airport. They have their own banknotes that go right up to 1000 Krona (~$A400 - a 3* Hotel room night over there!) that are not official legal tender in Denmark, and vice-versa etc.

Currency notes up to 1000 Krona.

It is (so far) a totally unspoiled destination for any tourist. (Unlike nearby Iceland!) No huge tour buses full of tourists, as occurs on near every other spot on this planet these days. Beautiful scenery, and oddly not a single tree in the entire country, other than in a few home gardens. Strange to see. Entire rugged

vistas for miles in every direction, with not a tree to be seen! MANY readers collect the superbly produced Faroe Islands stamps, and will possibly enjoy some real photos from there. Horrifying costs for everything, but that’s small remote islands for ya! Many dozens of our unusual photos of these fascinating islands are here - tinyurl.com/Faeros (yes MY spelling error!) Then a direct twice weekly flight to Edinburgh on the Faroes owned Airline, for some driving around the Scottish Highlands which I love. Drove about 1,500 Kms which covers Scotland top to bottom - and sideways too! Based ourselves in Inverness, and visited John O Groats, and Dunnett Head, the most northern point of the UK, and got some great PUFFIN photos there. Was there in Scotland all during the mad Election week mess in UK - what a strange story THAT was. The Faroe Islands are an incredibly interesting country to visit, and MANY houses have strange grass turf roofs as per my photo nearby. There are endless sheep wanding aimlessly around unfenced, and they put one on the roofs to keep the height down! Hardly a tourist in sight anywhere, and quite magificent scenery, and history going back to Viking graves, and house reamins etc. Weather far milder and more even than you’d imagine, and it rarely snows, even in winter we were told. Do check out dozens more photos and comments - tinyurl.com/Faeros Stamp News - 67

philatelic trading post

australia's only stamps classifieds

worldwide

exchange Send 100-1000 Australia and World Stamps for my same # US stamps. Tom Harkins, 7 Quaker R, New Fairfield, CT 06812, USA. Email harkins. tom@gmail.com Collector needs collectors in Canada, China, Great Britain to exchange used or mint stamps, please. Fair exchange only. Chris Jewell-Smith, PO Box 5124, Broulee, NSW, Australia 2537 Penfriend Wanted - For exchange, fauna, flora, mushrooms, lighthouses, mountains, stamps on stamps, Christmas, Olympics, world cup, music, trains, airplanes from Aust, NZ & Pacific. Exchange value Yvert, Michel, Scott. Speaks Spanish/English. Antonio Creo Reyes, PO Box 2222 Habana 2, Cuba 10200

for sale For Sale; BOOKLETS Scarce Cocos SB3 Cat. 100 pounds, $130, Xmas Is. Booklet SB1 cat 160 pounds, $160, Xmas Is. 1st Postmaster provisional booklet, rare $300. Cocos Booklets 1 & 2 $80 each. All early Commonwealth booklets wanted to buy. Visa accepted. Dr. W. L. Mayo. email mayoinavalon@yahoo.com.au Tel: 02 9918 6825 (09/15) Australia, N.Zealand, West Europe, Better earlies at bargain prices. VFU only, some in quantity. Phone 0419 680 824, PO Box 93, Bexley South, 2207 Half Price stamp Sale. Loads of stamps from 5 cents. Israel, Russia, Germany. Antarctic, Malta, Falklands, Sth. Africa, Ireland & much more. Dealer enquiries welcome. Send your wants list to: John Cornelius, PO Box 23 Magill SA 5072 Phone: 0407 615 240 Collection surplus Stamps from Canada, Channel Islands, Falklands & Dependencies, Fr. Antarctic, Gibraltar, GB, Ireland, Malta, Namibia, NZ, South Africa and USA. MUH mint and used. Trade Enquiries OK. Send your wants lists to: John Cornelius, PO Box 23, Magill, 5072.

Germany Third Reich. For Germany Third Reich and other World War II material please visit www.ww2historical.com Stamps of Africa, Europe, Australia, Pacifics, Sth. America, USA, Mediterranean, Asia on approval. P & D Nicholls, PO Box 488 Cranebrook, NSW 2749

accessories ALBUMS, CATALOGUES, AND EQUIPMENT for stamps, coins, & banknotes at mail order discount prices. Enquiries or quotes write to: SAPPHIRE COAST PHILATELIC SUPPLIES, PO Box 285, Pambula, NSW 2549, or Phone/Fax (02) 6495 7382.

buying Buying Australia and World Kiloware. We urgently wish to buy quantities of modern Australia and World Kiloware. Regular supplies needed. All mixtures to be close clipped single paper, and will pay as follows, all prices per kg. (a) Australia Commemoratives only to 2013 $12.50, 2014 $15, 2015 $25 (b) Australia Mission modern inc. 2015 issues $10 (c) Australia Territories, inc. Cocos, AAT, Christmas Is. Norfolk Is. etc. $25 (d) Australia Higher values, 53c upwards inc. Commems. $60, defins only $20 (e) Worldwide, modern mix unpicked. $30. Minimum sending $100 please. Single country mixtures also required, please enquire. Phone Kevin Morgan 0425 795 693 INTERFET: Buying any envelopes, covers or cards sent from East Timor by Civpol and/ or peacekeeping forces Mark A Smith, PO Box 1156, East Victoria Park, WA 6981email: marksstampsand collectables@gmail.com Wanted : Sheets or panes of 5Â˝d Emu stamps. Contact Ted on tedg@gj.com.au

approvals British Commwealth, Europe & World on Approval, sets plus packets, return unwanted. P & D Nicholls PO Box 488 Cranebrook, NSW 2749 Buying Australian Kiloware 55c Or 60c Values, Commemoratives and Definitives and current year kiloware too, 60c bundles wanted too, for more details email: postagestampsonpaper@gmail.com.

thematics Birds, Disney, Cars, Ships, Planes, Sports, Olympics, Royalty on Approval. P&D Nicholls PO Box 488 Cranebrook, NSW 2749

Join the exciting Products & Services Directory! Single: 46mm x 24mm $260 per year or $26 per month Double: 46mm x 50mm $520 per year or $52 per month Triple: 46mm x 78mm $695 per year or $69.50 per month Quad: 46mm x 102mm $990 per year or $99 per month Larger spaces POR Ph: 0425 795 693 68 - Stamp News

email: kevinmorgan2@live.com www.stampnews.com.au

now free for subscribers (subject to available space)

societies PENINSULA STAMP CLUB Meets 3rd Wednesday each month at 7.30pm, Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Road, Rosebud. Visitors most welcome. Secretary: PO Box 187,Dromana, 3936

BRIGHTON PS Inc. Meets 8.00pm 2nd and 4th Tuesday and 10.30am 3rd Tuesday each month. 80 Gardenvale Road, Gardenvale, Vic, 3185. Visitors/new members welcome. www.brightonps.org.au

AUSTRALIAN PS meets 3rd Monday monthly. RSL Homes, 152 Canterbury Rd (cnr Keats GLADSTONE AND DISTRICT PS Inc. Meets on the 2nd Wednesday each month at St) Canterbury. All visitors most welcome. Contact: 51 Camperdown St, Brighton East, 7.30pm. Venue: Neighbourhood Centre, 10 Toolooa St, Gladstone. Postal: PO Box 1089, Gladstone, Qld, 4680. Ph: (07) 4978 1155. VIC, 3187. www.aps.org.au The IPDA Inc - Internet Philatelic Dealers Association - dealers & prt time sellers who believe there is a need for a global organisation to represent them as accredited internet sellers. Join the IPDA. Go to www.ipdaonline.org for details.

Cricket Philatelic Society (President, A. Melville-Brown) email: mel.cricket.100@googlemail.com

web: www.cricketstamp.net

classified advertisement order form Classified advertising in THE PHILATELIC TRADING POST costs only $1 per word or free for subscribers (dealers and clubs excluded) - or you can insert the same advertisement in three consecutive editions for the price of two! Payment MUST accompany classified advertisement copy and may be made by money order, cheque or credit card (American Express, Bankcard, Mastercard and Visa welcome). If paying by credit card, be sure to quote your account number and expiry date. Classifieds are pre-paid only. Please state your preferred classification or suggest a new one for us to consider. Address your classified ad to: STAMP NEWS, PO Box 1290, Upwey VIC 3158

Payment method: Cheque Money order Credit card

Free! I am a current subscriber

Card no: __________________________________________ Type: _____________________________________________ Expiry: ___________________________________________ Name: ____________________________________________ Signature: _________________________________________

Check your advertisement for accuracy of the first insertion. Stamp News cannot be responsible for the cost of more than one incorrect insertion. All ads require name, address and phone number with order; they do not need to be used in your copy.

NUMBER OF ISSUES TO RUN: __________________________ TOTAL # OF WORDS: _________________________________ COST: _____________________________________________

Abbreviations, initials and phone numbers count as one word. PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY. CLASSIFICATION: _________________________________

3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 39 42 45 48

Stamp News - 69

philatelic clubs & societies new south wales Armidale Circle RSPC: Mtg 2nd Wed Australian Cmwlth Collectors Club of NSW: Mtg 3rd Mon 7.45pm, 1st flr. Philas House, 17 Brisbane St, Darlinghurst, Sydney 2001. Ph 02 9267 8301; Fax: 02 9264 4741. GPO Box 1971, Sydney NSW 2000 Ph: 02 9264 8301 Aust. States Study Circle: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Bathurst Stamp Coin and Collectables Club: Mtg 1st Mon 7.30pm, Old Eglinton fire shed, Park St, Elington PO Box 151, Bathurst NSW 2795 Bega Phil. & Numismatic Society: Mtg 3rd Friday 8.00pm. Mthly Newsletter. PO Box 370, Bega NSW Blue Mountains Stamp Club: Mtg 4th Friday (ex Dec) 8.00pm Katoomba Public School; PO Box 76, Blackheath Boambee East PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan) 6pm Boambee East Comm. Centre, Bruce King Dr. Ph: 02 66581385 Campbelltown District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan - 4th Wed); @ Catholic Hall Acacia St, Ruse. Inquiries: mystampclub@yahoo.com.au; PO Box 478, Campbelltown 2560 Castle Hill SC Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, Hills District Bowling Club, Jenner Street, Baulkham Hills; PO Box 151 Castle Hill NSW 1765 China Study Group of PSNSW: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Cinderella SC: Mtg 2nd Friday, even months; Produces “Cinderellas Australia” and monographs; PO Box 889, Chatswood, NSW 2057 Coffs Harbour SC: Mtg 2nd Wed Earlwood and District SC:Mtg 1st Wed Grafton SC: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex. Dec) Grafton Stampers & Everything Philatelic: Mtg 1st Sun 2pm (ex School Hols). Grafton Baptist Church Hall, Cnr Queen & Oliver Sts. Ph 02 6642 1363. email gbchurch@bigpond.com. Great Lakes SC: Mtg1st Sat 9.30am , Workshop & Market 1st Sat 9-12, Great Lakes Campus Annexe, Taree St, Tuncurry Enq: Ph 02 6554 9776 Gosford PS: Afternoon Mtg 1st Mon; Evening Mtg 2nd Thurs Hawkesbury Valley PS (Richmond Stamp Club): Mtg 2nd Thurs (ex Jan) PO Box 28 Richmond 2753 Illawarra PS: Mtg 3rd Thursday (ex. Jan) Wollongong Master Build. Club Ltd, Oasis Room, 7.30pm. All welcome. Tel. (02) 42252011. Kempsey RSL PS: Mtg 2nd Wed Lake Macquarie Stamp Club:: Mtg 2nd Sat 9am; Combined Pensioners & Community Care Services 130 Josephson St, Swansea. Enq: 02 4392 5211 Lord Howe Island Postal History Society: Mtg by arrangement. Contact Pres: Dr William Mayo, 02 9918 6825 Lower Clarence PS: Mtg 4th Tues Macquarie Valley PS: Mtg 2nd Tues Maitland SC: Mtg 2nd Mon ex Jan. ‘Show & Tell’ every mtg E. Maitland Bowling Club, Bank St. Pres. Mark Saxby; Sec. David Carratt; Ph: 02 4932 4045 Email: carrotspatch@tpg.com.au Manly-Warringah Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Tues, cnr. Pittwater Rd & Federal Pde, Brookvale. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: stampsmw@bizland.com.au Milton-Ulladulla SC: Meeting 1pm on 4th Monday of each month (ex Dec.) Milton Ulladulla Bowling Club, St. Vincent Street, Ulladulla Sec. POBox 670, Ulladulla, NSW 2539 Tel. Barbara Smith 0244555214 Morisset Uniting Church SC: Mtg 4th Sat 10am (ex Dec) Enq: 4977 2525 (Jenny) Mudgee Coin Note & Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph 02 63735324 Nambucca River PS: Mtg 1st Sunday Newcastle PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs, 7.30pm Mayfield Ex-Services Club; 10am 3rd Wed, 48 Mackie Ave, New Lambton, Juniors 11am 3rd Sun, Wallsend Pioneers Hall NSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301

act Canberra, Philatelic Society of: 1st Thursday: General Meeting,3rd Thursday: Afternoon Meeting (IF REQUIRED),3rd Thursday: (Evening) Exchange Night, 2nd Tuesday: Postcard Group, 4th Monday: Machin Collectors Group. All meetings 7:45pm, Griffin Centre, Genge Street, Canberra City Postal Address:PO Box 1840,Canberra ACT 2601,Email:psc@netspeed.com.au www.canberrastamps.org

western australia The Airmail Circle of WA: Mtg 5th Monday “Wellington Fair” Unit 18, 40 Lord St. East Perth Tel: 08 9294 3356 Armadale-Kelmscott PS: Mtg 4th Tues; Ph: 08 9397 6525 email: fit.kanga@bigpond.com Bridgetown-Manjimup SC: Mtg 1st Thurs 4.30pm Bridgetown Library Ph 08 9761 4638 or 08 9761 2005 Busselton SC: Mtg 1st Mon, 5pm 7th Day Adv. Church, Alpha St; Ph: 08 9752 4449, 0400 646 282 email witches1@westnet.com.au Canning SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9457 7565 Daytime SC: Mtg 1st Thurs; 08 9341 3576 Denmark SC: Mtg 1st Weds Lions Lair Rivermouth Inlet Drive, Denmark. Tel: 08 9848 3325 email: fishneil@westnet.com.au Eastern Goldfields: Mtg 3rd Thurs ; Ph: 0412 156 351 Eaton SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7pm Ph. 08 9795 7744, email: scrapbit@tpg.com Fremantle and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed, St. Peter’s Church Hall, 4 Hammad St., Palmyra. Circuit books 7pm, meeting 8pm Ph: 08 9284 7125 Have a go SC: Mtg Last Thurs. 137 Edward St, East Perth. Tel: 08 9305 2073 email: nigan@iinet.net.au Kalamunda SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9291 8484

70 - Stamp News

NSW club information:The Philatelic Association of NSW, PO Box220, Darlinghurst, NSW, 1300 Phone: 02 9264 8301

Northern Suburbs PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7.45pm, Naremburn Library, Central St, Naremburn off Slade St; Ph: 02 9419 7354 Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Orange Community Info Centre, 79-81 Kite St, Orange 7.30pm Ph: 02 6362 3754. Orchid Stamp Club: Mtg 3rd Sat. (Jan and each 2nd mth) Parramatta PS: Mtg 1st Friday Penrith and District PS: Mtg 1st Thursdays, 8pm, Unit 3A Castlereagh St. 02 4733 3062 PHILAS Stamp Auctions: Mtg 2nd Sat Mar,Jul, Nov Ph 02 9264 8301 PS of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed (exDec); Ph 02 9399 7556 PS of NSW: Mtg 1st Tues (Philas House), 3rd Tues (Chatswood); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Richmond River (Lismore) PS: Mtg 4th Thursday Royal Sydney Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd Tues. (ex Jan); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Sapphire Coast Stamp & Coin Club: Mtg Enq 02 6495 7308. Mail to PO Box 285, Pambula, NSW 2549 St. George PS: Mtg 1st Mon Shoalhaven PS: Mtg 2nd Monday (Ex Jan) PO Box 4047, East Nowra 2541. Ph 02 44472976 Smithfield SC: Mtg 2nd Mon Society for Polar Philately: 2012 meetings: 2nd Wednesday of February, March, May, July, Sept and November held at Ryde Ex-Services Club 724-730 Victoria Rd, Ryde, NSW Tel: 9807 3344 (in Mackinnon room) starting at 8pm.Enq 0407 277 223 or email penviews@hotmail.com Strathfield-Burwood PS: Mtg 4th Wed Sussex Inlet and District: Mtg 3rd Mon Sutherland Shire PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. , 7:30pm, Sutherland Uniting Services Club, 7 East Pde, Sutherland. Information Secretary, PO Box 339, Sutherland, NSW 1499 Sydney Anglican Stamp Society: Mtg 2nd Sat, even months 9.30am - 2.30pm, St Paul’s, Carlingford. www.sass.asn.au Tamworth PS: Mtg 1st Mon ex. Jan. Tamworth Bridge Club, 7 Hilton St, Tamworth Sec. Graeme Mitchell. PO Box 678, Tamworth NSW 2340 Ph. 02 67664853 Taree RSL Club Ltd SC: Mtg 3rd Mon Thematic Society of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed Toronto SC: Mtg 1st Wed Tuggerah SC: Mtg 4th Sun (ex Dec.) Turramurra SC: Mtg 2nd Monday, 7.45pm. Ph: 9144 4225 Twin Towns Stamp Club Inc.: Mtg 1st Monday, 7.30p, Masonic Centre, 8 Boyd St, Tweed Heads, 07 5535 3168 Wagga SC: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) ARCC Building, Tarcutta St, 7.30pm. Secretary: Peter Simpfendorfer Ph:02 6922 3393 Willoughby Legion Philatelic Section: Mtg 4th Tues Wyong PS: Mtgs: 3rd Tues 7.30pm, daytime meetings 1st Weds, KGV Heads group 4th Weds. Jim Spence Sec. 02 4392 3610 email: dandasonter6@bigpond.com

northern territory Alice Springs SC: Meet Informally; PO Box 1529, Alice Springs, NT, 0871. Ph 08 8953 3054 Darwin Philatelic Circle: 1st Sun. 10am - 2pm. 53 Flametree Crt, Rosebery; Ph:(08) 8931 2898; PO Box 1624, Palmerston, NT, 0831; Email: Nadine.Tinsley@nt.gov.au-. WA club information: WA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Perth, WA, 6001 Mandurah PS PO Box 625 Mandurah WA 6210 2nd Tues 4.45 - 6.30pm Bortolo Park Pavilion Cnr. Bortolo and Murdoch Drives Greenfields WA 6210 08 9581 1083 keithmich@bigpond.com Northern Districts SC: Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9329 0117 Philatelic Forum: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan); Ph: 08 9294 4277 Rockingham & Kwinana (PS of): Mtg 3rd Tues (NB 2nd in Dec) Pres. Malcolm Brown; Sec. Terry Boyd; PRO Lucie Schokker Ph. 08 9419 1604; email: malcolm.b@iinet.net.au PS of WA: Mtg 3rd Tues; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Wed (ex Dec); Clubrooms, Charles Riley Reserve, Wendling Rd, North Beach, Ph: 08 9447 7256 The Postmark Circle (WA): Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Victoria Park SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9472 8072 or 08 9450 5280 WA Study Group: Mtg 4th Thurs (ex Dec) 08 9384 1050 Wanneroo SC: Mtg 3rd Mon; Ph: 08 6106 0874.

philatelic clubs & societies new zealand Air Mail Society of NZ: Ph: 03 3584838; Email: alant@snap.net Auckland PS: Mtg 1st and 3rd Tues (except Jan). Ph 09 9853212; Email kiwibrooce@ yahoo.com; Website: www.aps.gen.nz Christchurch PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Library night 3rd Tues; GB Machin 3rd Fri odd months; Postal History 1st Mon; Postcard 3rd Tues even months. Email: secretary@ cps.gen.nz; Website: www.cps.gen.nz Dunedin PS: Mtg 4th Thurs (except Nov and Dec). Ph: 03 4557643; Email: davidallison2009@gmail.com; Website: www.dunedinstampclub.org.nz Hastings Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Wed (except Jan and 2nd Wed Dec). Ph: 06 8765911; Email: clairemole@xtra.co.nz Hawkes Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Ph: 06 8439433; Email: dennmarg@paradise. net.nz Horowhenua PS: Mtg 2nd Mon. Ph: 06 3689881; Email: michael.christensen@xtra. co.nz Hutt Valley PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan). Ph: 04 5697439; Email: richards@nec.co.nz Kapiti PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec). Ph: 04 2971197; Email: ian.burttt@yahoo.co.nz Manaia PS: Mtg (Hawera) 1st Sun. Ph: 06 2784292; Email: peter.williams@xtra.co.nz Manawatu PS: Mtg 1st Wed, daytime meeting 3rd Tues. Ph: 06 3584565; Email: mps@inspire.net.nz Marlborough Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Mon (except Jan and 2nd Mon Dec). Morrinsville Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 07 8893199 Nelson PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 03 5469092; Email: paula.hucklesby@clear.net.nz North Shore PS: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: nsps@xtra.co.nz; Website: www.northshoreps.com NZ Stamp Collectors Club Christchurch: Mtg 4th Wed. Ph 03 3895511; Email: steve@ philatelic.org.nz; Website: www.nzeal.com/philately/nzscc.htm NZ Postcard Society: Ph: 03 3848463; Email: jenny-long@clear.net.nz; Website: www. postcard.org.nz

queensland Arana Hills SC: Meeting 2nd Tues; 07 3851 0213; email: petermccloskey@bigpond.com Bayside Afternoon SC: Meeting last Wed; Ph: 07 3206 6281. Bundaberg PS: Mtg 2nd Mon 7pm, The Family Centre, Kensington St (in the Show Grounds); Ph: 07 4152 2403 or 07 4151 3062 Caboolture & District SC: Mtg 3rd Sat. Ph: 07 5498 6504 Cairns SC: Mtg 3rd Wed. 7.30pm Brothers Leagues Club, 99 Anderson St. Ph: 07 4055 1302 Sec: Ross Bottomer, email:rbottomer@y7mail.com, web:www.cairnsstampclub.asn.au Caloundra SC: Mtg. 4th Thurs. Catholic Church Hall, Edmund St. 1.30pm. Ph: 07 5494 7233 City Daytime SC: Mtg 2nd Thurs. Ph: 07 3206 6281 City of Brisbane PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Ph: 07 3263 8573 (ah); email: desley@mycelebrant.com Collectors Club Queensland: Mtg 2nd Sunday each month 9am to 1pm - RSL Hall, 58 Arnold St, Holland Park. Contact 0409 130 266 or ccqueensland@gmail.com Enoggera SC: Mtg 1st and 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 3264 4157 Gladstone and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed (Ex. Jan) & 4th Wed (Ex.Dec). Ph. Sec: 07 4978 1155 Ian Rippingale, Gold Coast PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 11.30am, Southport Community Centre, Lawson St, Southport. Ph: 07 5546 3801 Gympie SC: Mtg. 2nd Sun. Jessie Witham Centre 1 - 3pm Ph. 07 5483 9188 email: sandandan@bigpond.com Hervey Bay Afternoon Club: Mtg 3rd Wed. Ph: 07 4124 1138 Ipswich SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan). Ph: 07 3282 2983 Junction Park SC: Mtg 1st Tues, 7.30pm, Annerley Baptist Hall, Lambton St. Contact: 07 3277 6724. PO Box 177, Annerley, 4103, righteo274@bigpond.com Lockyer Valley SC: Mtg 4th Sun, 1.30pm, Senior Citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall, Gatton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: lvsc@bigpond.com Logan City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, Presbyterian Church, Barry St, Slacks Creek, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226.

Further information can be obtained from the NZ Philatelic Federation, PO Box 58139, Whitby, Porirua, 5245, NZ. E-mail: secretary@nzpf.org.nz Postal History Soc of NZ: Auckland 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 09 5220311. Chapter meetings held Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth and Wellington. Pukekohe Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sun. John Mounce, President 649-291-9381 johnmounce@ihug.co.nz Royal PS of NZ: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex Jan). Ph: 04 5899530; Email: office@rpsnz.org.nz; Website www.rpsnz.org.nz South Auckland PS: Mtg last Sat (except Dec), Papatoetoe, day time mtgs 3rd Fri (ex Dec and Jan). Ph: 09 2682245; Email: elowera@orcon.net.nz Southland PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (except Jan), 3rd Tue (daytime) (except Jan). Email: antqgevi@es.co.nz Taranaki PS: Mtg 1st Mon except Jan. Ph: 06 7546212; Email: murray-grimwood@ hotmail.com Tauranga & District Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Mon (except Dec). Ph: 07 5765210; Email: beducker@hotmail.com Thames Valley PS: Mtg 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 07 8689190. Thematic Association of NZ: Ph: 04 2347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Timaru PS: Mtg 1st Wed. Ph: 03 6880343 Upper Hutt PS: Mtg 3rd Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec). Ph: 04 5284123; Email: teme. isaac@clear.net.nz Waikato PS: Mtg 1st (except Jan) and 3rd Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: c.cameron@agresearch.co.nz Wakatipu PS: Ph: 03 4428865 Wanganui PS: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 06 3427894; Email: g.p.phillips@xtra.co.nz Wellesley PS: Mtg 2nd and 4th Mon (ex public holidays). Ph: 9 8271240 Wellington PS: Mtg 4th Mon (except Dec); Ph: 042347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Whakatane PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Thurs (except Jan) Ph: 07 3222054 or 07 3086193 Whangarei PS: Mtg 2nd Meeting: 2nd Tues (Ex.Jan) Ph 09 4348000; Email johnmonica@xtra.co.nz QLD Philatelic Council, 18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum, Qld, 4178. Ph: 07 3396 0846 Fax: 07 3396 0842. Email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Web: www.qpc.asn.au

Mackay and District PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 4942 5433; Maryborough and Wide Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Salvation Army Youth 7 Comm. Hall. Bazaar St Maryborough. Ph: 07 41224708 (see also Hervey Bay) Nanango SC: Mtg 2nd Sat, 10:00am, Nanango RSL. Contact Ph: 07 3103 8938 or ema il: bowtell_harris@activ8.net.au Philatelic Society of Qld: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm,18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum. Ph: 07 3245 5222 Queensland Study Group: Sunday bi-monthly 1.00pm meets QPS house. Contact Ph: 07 3396 0846 email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Redland Bay Coin and Stamp Club, 4th Thurs. Monthly. John Hardman 07 3206 9996 or 07 3822 6987 Rockhampton SC: Mtg 1st Tues. Ph: 07 4926 3336. email: rockystampclub@gmail.com Sherwood Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 3372 6096 Southport Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 07 55630384 Southside PS: Mtg 3rd Tuesday & 3rd Wednesay (9am) Ph: 07 3848 2304 (ah) email: david. appleton@mailbox.uq.edu.au Sunshine Coast SC (formerly Nambour SC): Mtg 1st Wed, 7.15pm Red Cross Rms, Price St., Nambour 07 5445 3647 Thematics Queensland: Mtg bi-monthly 9.30am. Ph: 07 3262 5605 email: j.crowsley@ uq.net.au Toowoomba SC: Mtg. 2nd Sat 1pm, Salvation Army Hall, Cnr. West St. 7 Anzac Ave. Ph. 07 4635 5623 Email: bob.benny@bigpond.com Twin Towns SC: Mtg 1st Mon; Ph: 07 5535 3168 Waterloo Bay SC: Mtg. 1st Thurs. 1pm & 4th Mon. 7pm. Redlands Multi SportsClub, Birkdale Ph: 07 3206 0815

Stamp News - 71

philatelic clubs & societies south australia

Information about clubs in SA can be obtained from the SA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Adelaide, SA 5001. Daytime Ph: 08 8212 3557 or 8223 4435

Australian Airmail Society: 1st Wed. 7.45pm 22 Gray Court, Adelaide. PO Box 395, Edwardstown 5039. Ph: 08 8276 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; 19 Evans Street Ancaston 5353; email: ptomely1939@gmail.com; Ph: (08) 8562 8386 Blackwood PC: Mtg 2nd Wed ex Jan; Uniting Church, Main Rd, Blackwood; Ph: 08 8278 1629; PO Box 581, Blackwood 5051; email: teepee@teegee.com.au Bordertown & Districts PS: Mtg: 3rd Thurs. Bordertown PS Contact: K. Grey Tel: 08 8752 0446 or email cdhuntmundulla@yahoo.com.au Community PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Fri - 7.30pm. Marion Bowling Club, off Sturt Rd. PO Box 75 Edwardstown, 5039; Auctions, circuit books. Ph: 0408806894 City of Noarlunga PS: Mtg alternate thurs,-- Community Health Centre, Grand Boulevard, Seaford, Contact 08 85566371 or PO Box 272, Port Noarlunga 5167 Eastern Districts PS: 2nd Thurs (ex. Jan), 7.30pm Senior citizens Hall, 47 Reid Ave. Hectorville; PO Box 240, Magill, 5072; Ph: 0400 156 796 Elizabeth PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Fridays, 7.30pm, RSL Hall, Cnr of Halseys/Midway Rds;PO Box 701, Elizabeth 5112; Ph: 08 8255 0608 Encounter Bay SC: Mtg 1st Wed, 7.30pm; School Hall, Woolworths Centre, Victor Harbour; PO Box 317, Goolwa 5214; aydepe@bigpond.com; Ph: 08 8555 3311 SA Power Networks Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Mon (ex. Jan); Canteen, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick; PO Box 2079, Magill North, 5072; Ph: 08 8278 7163 Frama Club: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, members homes; For collectors of CPS, Framas. Newsletter and Auctions. PO Box 62 Campbelltown 5074. Gawler SC: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Evanston Primary School, Para Rd, Evanston. PO Box 2, Willaston 5118; Ph: 08 8522 2335 Email: jo.trev@bigpond.com German Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd & 4th Mon 8pm; German Club, 223 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000; Ph: 08 8260 2251 Glenside PS: 1st Wed 7.30pm& 3rd Sat 1.30pm; Uniting Church Hall, Carlton St. Highgate. PO Box 29, Glenside 5063. Ph: (08) 8353 8683 Lower Murray PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs,7.30pm, 2nd Sat, 10am; The Lions Den, Murray Bridge. PO Box 810, Murray Bridge; Ph: 08 85704074 lmphilsocsec@gmail.com Mount Gambier PS: Mtg 3rd Tues; Reidy Park Corn Centre. 8pm. Also1st Sunday (ex. Jan)

victoria Australian PS: Bi-monthly meetings on 3rd Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December at RSL Homes, 152 Canterbury Road [cnr Keats Street] Canterbury. Secretary, PO Box 156 Balwyn Vic. 3103 Bairnsdale SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Ballarat PS:Mtg 3rd & 5th Mon Balwyn PS: Mtg 3rd Friday; Daytime 1st Friday Bendigo PS: Mtg 1st Tues Berwick SC:Mtg 2nd Sun (ex Jan); Ph: 03 5942 7626 Blackburn Baptist SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Brighton PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Tues; Daytime 3rd Tues Camperdown SC: Mtg 1st Tues Castlemaine SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec) Colac PC: Mtg 4th Mon (ex. Dec), Colac Community College, Bromfield St, Colac. Ph:52314746 Corner Inlet SC: Mtg 4th Thurs, Foster, Ph: 03 56881100 Dandenong PS: 4th Thurs. ex Dec. 7.30pm, Meeting Room, Church of Christ, David St., Dandenong 03 5996 9501 Diamond Valley PS: Mtg 3rd Mon Essendon-Broadmeadows PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs; St Johns Uniting Church Hall, Cnr Mt Alexander Rd & Buckley St, Essendon; Murray Gorham, Ph 9306 7480 Footscray PS: Mtg 1st Mon (2nd in Jan); Maribyrnong Comm. Centre, 54 Raleigh Rd, Maribyrnong. PO Box 2477 Taylors Lakes 3038. PH. 0438 901 144. email: footscraystamps@gmail Frankston & District SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Seaford Community Centre, Broughton St Seaford. Ph: 5996 3745 Geelong PS: Mtgs 1st Sat 7.00pm, 3rd Mon 1pm (ex Jan) Sat - Diversitat Community Centre, 9-15 Clarence St, Geelong West. Mon - Belmont Library, High St, Belmont Ph: 0438578591 (Sec); PO Box 342, Belmont 3216 Hamilton PS: Mtg 2nd Monday Hungarian PS: Mtg 2nd Wed

tasmania Derwent Valley PS: Mtg 4th Mon Devonport Junior SC: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon Devonport SC: 4th Fri, except Dec. 3rd Fri. 7.30pm, Oldaker Christian Centre, Oldaker St, Devonport, 03 6424 3449 devstampclub.org Devonport Stamp Group: Mtg 4th Fri, Public Library Mtg Rms, 7.30pm Ph. 03 6424 3449 Glenorchy SC: Mtg 1st Tues

72 - Stamp News

1.30pm - 4pm. PO Box 2261,Mt Gambier.Ph: 08 8724 9474 Para Hills PS: Mtg 1st Sun; Community Hall Wilkinson Rd, Para Hills. PO Box 64, Para Hills; Ph: 08 8522 4345 Phillumeny SC: U3/26-28 Crozier Av, Modbury 5092. Ph: 08 8337 6533 Email: www.users.or.net/ figg/amccs Port Pirie PS: Mtg 4th Mon; PO Box532, Pt Pirie 5540; Ph: 08 8632 1105 Printed Collectables Club (SAPC): Mtg last Tues, Julia Farr Cent. Canteen, Ground Floor, Fisher St. Ph: 08 8265 7395; PO Box 657, Enfield Plaza 5085 PS of South Australia:1st & 3rdTues; 22 Gray Ct. GPO Box 9800, Adelaide 5001; Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Aust. (Aus. Com. Spect.Grp.): Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm;22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Daytime SC):Mtg 1st & 3rd Thurs; 22 Gray Ct.Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Study Group):Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm; 22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8522 4345 Postal Stat & Postal Hist Soc: Mtg 2nd Tues; SAPHIL House, 22 Gray Ct, Adelaide. email: psandph@arcom.com.au; Ph: 08 8260 3352 Riverland PS: Mtg 3rd Fri, 10am ;Whitmore Hall, Barmera Village; Ph: 08 8595 3023 SA Junior Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Sun 1pm - 3pm;Anyone over 5years, parents welcome. 22 Grey St, Adelaide. 08 8250 0484 Salisbury PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon;StJohns Church Hall. PO Box 336 Salisbury 5108; Ph: 08 8252 2392 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Fri 7.45pm, Old Railway Station (now Community Services Bldng.); Ph: 08 8370 2680 Strathalbyn PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 8pm; Rosa Hoare Room, Lutheran Church Complex Corner, Commercial Rd/North Pde; C/- Post Office, Strathalbyn 5255; Ph: 0429 693 747 Ukrainian Collectibles Club: Mtg Wed as per syllabus; PO Box 466, Woodville 5011; Ph: 08 8345 4033 Yorke Peninsula Collectors Club: Senior Citizens Club. Taylor St, Kardina. Mtg 3rd Wed ex. Jan; PO Box 178, Bute 5560; Ph: 08 8821 2906 Club Information: Victorian Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Melbourne, Vic, 3001 Italian PS: Mtg 2nd Mon (ex Jan), 7.30pm, Veneto Club, 191 Bulleen Rd Bullen. (PO Box 166, Niddrie, 3042) Latrobe Valley PS: Mtg Last Wed ex Dec 7.30pm, St Lukes Uniting Church Hall, Princes Way, Morwell; Chris Zarb, Sec. ph. 03 5174 3394 Maryborough Stamp Club:Mtg mthly ex Jan 2nd Tues of month 8pm, St Augustine’s Hall, Maryborough. PO Box 295, Maryborough, 3465; Ph: 03 5464 2400. maryboroughsc@eudoramail.com. maryboroughsc.web1000.com Mildura PS: Mtg Last Thurs (ex Dec)Carnegie Building 74 Deakin Ave Ph: 03 5023 8789 Mooroolbark PS: Mtg 1st Tues; Ph: 03 9723 3304 Oakleigh PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan) Oakleigh Public Library, Drummond St, Oakleigh Ocean Grove SC: Mtg 4th Wed. 10am. Ocean Grove Senior Citizens Clubrooms Melways: 234 A. Ph. 03 5255 1372 Peninsula SC: Mtg 3rd Wed, 7.30pm Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Rd, Rosebud. Ph: 03 5975 0574 Polish PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Prahran PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) Ringwood PS: Gen Mtg 1st Thurs; Daytime 3rd Mon Ph: 03 9725 0514 email hanszomer@bigpond.com Royal PS of Victoria:Mtg 3rd & 5th Thurs; Daytime 1st Tues Sale SC: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan) Shepparton PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Mechanics Institute, Shepparton. Ph. 0419 560 813 Sherbrooke PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs ex Jan Upwey Fire Brigade Hall, 8pm; Bob Cook Ph: 03 9758 3465 Upper Yarra SC: Mtg 3rd Tues St Arnaud SC: Mtg 3rd Mon (excl. Jan & Dec) 03 54951371 Warragul PS: Mtg 2nd Fri Warrnambool PS: Mtg 3rd Wed 7.45pm St Joseph’s Primary School, Botanic Road;Ph: 03 5561 1470 Waverley PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs 7.30pm, Mt Waverley Community Centre, 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley; Daytime mtg the following Friday, 9.30am, Uniting Church Hall, 482 High St, Mt Waverley. Ph. 03 9898 4102 Obtain Tasmanian clubs information from: Tasmanian Stamp Council, GPO Box 9800, Hobart, TAS, 7001. Ph: 03 6278 7084 Hobart Junior Group: Mtg 1st Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Kingston Junior Group: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Launceston PS: 1st Thurs. & 3rd Sat. ex. Jan. 6.30 pm, Max Fry Hall,TrevallynLauncestonTel: 03 6331 2580 (A/H) Mersey-Leven PS: Contact: 03 6425 3603 Rosny Junior Group: Mtg Last Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Tasmanian PS: Mtg Last Monday (ex. Dec); www.tps.org.au, Legacy House, 159 Macquarie St Hobart

stamp & coin fairs & events new south wales

victoria

July 1 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair,

July 2 - (1st Sun) Western Suburbs Stamp, Coin &

Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02

Banknote Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman

63623754.

St, Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716.

July 1 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor,

July 15 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair,

Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW.

Bentleigh. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph:

July 1 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am

0418 322 315.

- 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoom- July 30 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard ba. Ph. 0417 802 754

Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-

July 1 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin

3pm.

queensland

Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea. July 15 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483

TBA - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am - 2pm July 10 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1,

July 23 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Com-

Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport.

munity Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free

11.30am - 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Association

Entry, 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell.

Centre

request for listing or update of events or clubs & societies pages This form or a photocopy of this form must be completed in full and signed by and authorised person and submitted by post to Stamp News for any event or update to be listed in the Events or Societies pages - please note that specific dates cannot be included in club details. If any part of the form is incomplete the listing/update will not be made. Information will not be accepted via email. This is a free service and listings are included at the discretion of Stamp News and also subject to available space. Wording may be altered.

Please PRINT CLEARLY - illegible submissions will be disregarded. Name of event/club: ________________________________

Signature of authorised person: _________________________

Section to appear in (EVENTS or CLUBS): ____________________

Wording requested for listing/update: _____________________

Date/s of event/meeting: _____________________________

____________________________________________

Town & STATE: ___________________________________

____________________________________________

Contact phone to appear in listing: _______________________

____________________________________________

Name of person authorised to request listing/changes: ____________________________________________

Contact details (phone or email) of authorised person (not to appear): ____________________________________________

Submit to: Stamp News, PO Box 1290, Upwey VIC 3158 Stamp News - 73

Products & Services Directory dealers MONTHLY ONLINE AUCTIONS

STAMP MALL

Zero Buyer’s Commission Zero Card Fees Flat sellers fee per lot www.21stCenturyAuctions.com.au Tel: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9756 7506 email:info@21stcenturyauctions. com.au

Stamp Collecting Does not have to Be Expensive to Be Fun. Over 17,500 items in our Online Store at Fair Prices

GLEN STEPHENS RARE STAMPS 4 The Tor Walk Castlecrag, Sydney, NSW, 2068, Australia. Australia’s most visited stamp dealer website:

www.glenstephens.com

1000s of nett priced bargains and offers and specials. Philatelic journalist. ALL credit cards and methods of payments accepted - I even accept mint stamps in payment! Phone (02) 9958 1333. One of Australia;s biggest stamp buyers - see my buying page. Email - glen@glenstephens.com - email me now to get on my regular lists FREE! Life Member ASDA (New York) PTS (London) ANDA (Australia) etc. Full time dealer for 25 years. 11/05

By Steve Fletcher

www.stampmall.com.au

THE NEW ZEALAND STAMP COLLECTOR Published quarterly by the ROYAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND (INCORPORATED) PO Box 1269, Wellington, NZ Annual subscription (posted) NZ$60.00 (airmail extra)

Subscription correspondence and advertising enquiries should be addressed to the Business Manager, PO Box 1269, Wellington, New Zealand

Join the exciting Products & Services Directory! Single: 46mm x 24mm Double: 46mm x 50mm Triple: 46mm x 78mm Quad: 46mm x 102mm Larger spaces

$260 per year or $26 per month $520 per year or $52 per month $695 per year or $69.50 per month $990 per year or $99 per month POR

Ph: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9758 7506 email: kevinmorgan2@live.com

www.stampnews.net.au

PACIFIC STAMPS Australia’s leading dealer in stamps of the Pacific. New Issue Service for all the Pacific Island nations, including: Fiji, Pitcairn, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, Solomon Islands, New Zealand, Tuvalu, Tonga, Micronesia, Wallis and Futuna Cocos (Keeling) Niue, Norfolk Island, Samoa, Nauru, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Cook Islands etc. Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau, Tokelau, Christmas Island etc. For details and a copy of our price list, write to: Pacific Stamps, PO Box 816, Tewantin, QLD, 4565. Or phone: (07) 54740799 fax: (07) 54740757 or E-mail: info@pacficstamps.com.au website: pacificstamps.com.au

Philatelical event of the year: : a real magazine, 100% colour

Timbres Magazine

Reports, studies, hundreds of photos of stamps in France and in the whole world. Monthly, 100 pages Free sample (Join $A2 by stamps) Subscription by air: 475ff (approx. $A90) Information & subscription: TIMBROPRESSE 6, rue du Sentier 75080 Paris Cedex 02 Telephone: (33) 1 55 34 92 55

SAS/OCEANIA INVITES YOUR MEMBERSHIP Our award-winning quarterly journal, ‘The Informer’, contains regular, informative articles about Australia and States, New Zealand, PNG, and other Pacific countries by knowledgeable philatelic writers. Sample copy/ application form sent airmail for $US1.00. Mint US postage accepted.

Kevin Morgan Stamps & Coins Postage wanted: Always buying/selling collections, Up to 68c pay 40% 70c values pay 50% 75c and above pay 45% Regret no longer require other countries unless in substantial quantities. Tel: 0425 795 693 Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.kevinmorgan.com.au

accumulations, mixed lots. We are a general dealership stocking a wide range of worldwide items plus albums, accessories, etc. Credit Cards accepted. Discounts for Seniors Card holders and Philatelic Club members on production of membership ID.

SAS/O Secretary, PO Box 24764,San Jose, CA 95154-4764, USA

Great Britain

SEVEN SEAS STAMPS PTY LTD

1839-1951

PO Box 7346, Warringah Mall, NSW 2100

Manufacturers of the full range of Seven Seas brand album pages and complete albums, and publishers of the Australasian Stamp Catalogue. Also a full range of stamps as well as other accessories. Personal callers welcome or ask for free price lists. Tel: (02) 9905 3255. Fax: (02) 9905 7922. Email: stamps@sevenseas.com.au Web: www.sevenseas.com.au 06/06

74 - Stamp News

www.andrewglajer.co.uk Andrew G Lajer Ltd sales@andrewglajer.co.uk T: +44 (0)1189 344151

The Old Post Office, Davis Way, Hurst, Berkshire,RG10 0TR, UK

societies&publications MONTHLY ONLINE AUCTIONS Zero Buyer’s Commission Zero Card Fees Flat sellers fee per lot www.21stCenturyAuctions.com.au Tel: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9756 7506 email:info@21stcenturyauctions. com.au

AS C T

AUSTRALASIAN COLLECTABLE TRADERS SOCIETY

Features: Major Collectables Shows around Australia; discounted advertising in major collectables journals and yellow pages; regular newsletter; special discounts on accessories/albums etc.; free 6 month subscription to Stamp News; website, with free advertising for members

Join today, membership is free! No fees for the first 12 months, open to all traders in collectables, full or P/T. c/- PO Box 1290 Upwey, Vic. 3158

PHILATELY from AUSTRALIA a quarterly record of Research & information

ROYAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF VICTORIA INC. Australia $35, Br. Commonwealth £14 Sterling, United States & Canada $US28 per year. No serious collector of Australia and its States, New Zealand and Pacific Islands should be without asubscription to this International Award Winning Journal. Three Year Indexes - $A10 each Most back issues on hand. Write to: Business Manager PO Box 642, Toorak, VIC, 3142

PHILAS STAMP AUCTIONS 17 Brisbane St, Sydney 12:30pm Saturdays Second Saturday in March, July and November.

Viewing on preceding Saturday, Thursday and Friday illustrated catalogues posted free within Australia ($15 per annum posted overseas) Lots for sale welcome PO box 220 Darlinghurst NSW 1300 Phone: (02) 9264 8301 or ()2) 9264 8406 Fax: (02) 9267 4741

Sel Pfeffer’s BOONAH STAMP SUPPLIES PO Box 155, Boonah Q 4310, Australia Australia & Territories Booklet Catalogue Edition 4, Volume 1 - 1904-1972 - $40.00 Edition 4, Volume 2 - 1979-2009 - $45.00 Supplement 2010 - $18.00; 2011 - $15.00 Australasia & Territories Frama & CPS Catalogue - $45.00 Aust. Postage on cats. $3 - on sups. $2. Overseas at cost. Try one of my famous $100 Mystery boxes. Worth $400 retail! Box (1) - stamps & covers etc. (2) Booklets. (3) Framas & CPS Boxes - plus post at cost Four (4) STOCK REDUCTION DIRECT SALES annually Savings of up to 50% on popular material Reduction sale lists emailed or posted free. Phone 07 54631516. Email:- slpfeffer@bigpond.com web : www.apta.com.au/bss.pdf

PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF CANBERRA Inc.

The society has a regular program of meetings, with displays, exchanges and discussion nights, and welcomes visitors to Canberra. It has a flourishing exchange branch, which circulates to small stamp clubs in the south region, as well as in the Canberra area. It publishes, quarterly, a newsletter and a research journal ‘Capital Philately’. Enquiries about membership or about separate subscriptions to the journal should be directed to: Secretary: Tony Luckhurst Ph: 02 6241 1963 e-mail: tony_luckhurst@bigpound.com

JOIN TOPICAL STAMP COLLECTORS IN 90 COUNTRIES Join the AMERICAN TOPICAL ASSOCIATION! Many Benefits: 96-page TOPICAL TIME stamp journal containing articles and checklists, printed on slick coated paper, profusely illustrated. Membership Directory (150 pages) of 8,000 members listed under 700 topics and specialties, plus services. Biography service for 13,000 persons shown on stamps. Membership Information Board to answer your questions. Translation service. Handbooks of many topics. Much more...

Write today Airmail to :

AMERICAN TOPICAL ASSOCIATION PO Box 8, Carterville, IL 62918-0008, USA PH: 1-618-985-5100 Fax: 1-618-085-5131 Visa and Mastercard welcome

Trouble getting Stamp News? Not a subscriber yet? See our handy form towards the back of this issue, you can also order your subscription through your favourite stamp dealer. The following Stamp Shops do keep Stamp News, though mostly for regular purchasers, so you may need to ask the dealer to order in an additional copy for you. ( dealers who have a standing order for a minimum of 3 copies monthly get a free listing here, ask for details) New South Wales Gabriele’s Philatelic Service, Gabriele Woodbine, Suite 11/17 Gerrale Street, Cronulla, Ph: (02) 9544 3333 Fax: (02) 9247 8333 e-mail: gabriele@gabrieles.com.au Web: http://www. gabrieles.com.au

Tasmania

The Stamp Place, Trafalgar on Collins, Shop 3, 110 Collins Street, HOBART TAS 7000, Ph: (03) 6224 3536 Fax: (03)62243536 e-mail: info@thestampplace.com Web: http://www. tazitiger.com

Victoria

Max Stern & Company, Port Phillip Arc, 234 Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3001, Ph: (03) 9654 6751 Fax: (03) 9650 7192 e-mail: maxstern@netspace.net.au Web: http://maxstern.customer.netspace.net.au Kevin Morgan Stamps & Coins, PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693 email kmorgan2@live.com Shields Stamps & Coins, 52 Burgundy St, Heidelberg, Vic 3084 Ph. 03 9459 5953

Western Australia Cygnet Stamps, 9 Grevillea Way, Heathridge, WA 6027

Ph: 08 9402 9261 Ace Stamp Auctions, PO Box 2076, Ellenbrook, WA, 6069. Ph: 08 08 9297 3040 email: stampdealer@iinet.net.au

There are also about 4950 newsagencies in Australia, and most of the major stores carry a number of copies, alternatively you can arrange with your local newsagent to put one by for you each month.

Stamp News - 75

Stamp News Australasia Advertising Rates & Data Commencing January 2017 Publication details Stamp News Australasia is published by Kevin Morgan, ABN 61 577 987 652, at monthly intervals, twelve times per year. Publication date is the 1st day of each month.

Advertising deadlines 1st day of month prior to month of publication (eg the June edition advertising deadline is 1st MAY)

RATES - casual (all rates include GST) All Prices now include 4 Colour Separation Full page

Half Page

Quarter Page

Eighth

1 month

$900

$450

$225

$115

3 months

$850

$425

$215

$110

6 months

$800

$400

$200

$105

9 months

$775

$390

$195

$100

12 months

$750

$375

$190

$95

All rates are now for prepaid series only, 30 day terms will incur an accounting fee of 5%. Payment via credit card on a monthly basis is also acceptable for prepayment terms at no surcharge, however American Express, Diners Club and Paypal payments will attract a 2.5% administration fee. SPECIAL NOTES 1. Advertisers may vary their display advertising sizes within a contract period. 2. If booked advertising material does not arrive by the due date the Publisher reserves the right to publish a previously published advertisement in lieu. 3. Prices are for copy supplied in digital format to the required standard. If production work is required extra charges may be necessary. Please consult.

Required submission format Advertisements should be supplied in digital format (on disk or via email). Advertisements should be provided as high resolution PDF files, with all fonts embedded. All images must be scanned at 300dpi resolution and sent as separate files, and must not be compressed by jpeg below medium quality. Price lists must be provided in Excel format. Phone to discuss other formats or alternatives. Note that MS Publisher files are NOT accepted.

Advertisement Sizes

Trimmed magazine size Full page nominal image size Half page horizontal Half page vertical Third page horizontal Third page vertical Quarter page horizontal Quarter page vertical

W 210 190 190 93 190 60 190 93

H 297 277 136 277 89 277 66 136

Advertising Contact Details Kevin Morgan Ph 0425 795 693 Stamp News, PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158. SPECIAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS Advertisers are hereby notified of the following conditions to which they signify their acceptance in submitting any advertisement: * Although oral instructions may be acted upon, no liability will be accepted for advertising instructions, alterations or cancellations made orally, they must be in writing. * No liability will be accepted for any loss occasioned by the failure of an advertisement or insert or any part of an advertisement or insert to appear in any specified issue, or for any error in an advertisement or insert. * Positions selected for advertisement are entirely at the discretion of the Publisher, except where otherwise arranged (see â&#x20AC;&#x153;Preferred Positionâ&#x20AC;?). * The matter, content and style of any advertisement is subject to approval of the Publisher. Advertisements held by the Publisher to be unlawful or undesirable in any way will be declined. * The Publisher reserves the right to suspend, refuse or withdraw any advertisement or order at its discretion at any time without notice. The Advertiser, in submitting an advertisement and/or material, is deemed to have agreed that no liability for claims, damages or compensation in respect thereof will be held against the Publisher. * TRADE PRACTICES: Advertisements submitted must be in strict accordance with the applicable State and Federal consumer and advertising laws in force from time to time. * INDEMNITY: In submitting any advertisement or insert, the Advertiser agrees that if any material, statement, information or matter contained in any such advertisement or insert is in breach of any statute, regulation or law (whether Federal, State or Territorial, directly, by inference or otherwise) and the Publisher publishes the advertisement or insert in good faith with no reason to be aware of such impediment and consequently suffers any penalty by reason of or arising from the publication of such material, then the Advertiser indemnifies the Publisher against the amount of any such penalty and shall pay the amount thereof and any consequential and reasonable legal costs incurred by the Publisher.

Contributor & Advertiser Deadlines August 2017 Issue 1 July 2017 September 2017 Issue 1 August 2017 We reserve the right to repeat advertising from a previous issue if material is not received in time. Email submission: stampnewsaus@gmail.com

POSTAL BID SALES

A couple of examples from our stocks -

We produce regular Postal Bid Sales featuring a varied assortment of Australian and British Commonwealth stamps, priced to suit all budgets - Lots are estimated from as $1 upwards. Our sales are run fairly in accordance with best industry practices.

Or View On-Line at www.burstamp.com NEW WEB-SITE – Visit

www.burstamp.com

to view our stock of quality Australia and New Guinea stamps

BURSTAMP.com

PO Box 132, BURPENGARY Q 4505 Email: burstamp@bigpond.com Phone: 0409 473 150 Fax: (07) 3102 8558 Mastercard &Visa Accepted

Mention you saw us in Stamp News!

Internet & Email Directory The following is an extensive listing of Stamp Dealer and Internet Website contact addresses worldwide. Millions of dollars of stock is priced up ready to sell on these sites. All Dealers may list their contact details here for a very affordable $175 per year fee, prepaid annually or only $17.50 a month. Contact the Advertising Manager on Ph: 0425 795 693, or email: kevinmorgan2@live.com www.brusden-white.com Publishers of Australia’s Gold Medal catalogue series - The Australian Commonwealth Specialists’ Catalogue. Order all volumes on line. Special offers also available. info@brusden-white.com

www.gabrieles.com.au Hundreds of new items added to our site each month. Add your email address to our “early bird” notice list, so when new material is added to the site, you get first choice! We also post out a printed copy of our monthly offers, for those who do not use the internet, this service is also free. Our printed, 36 paged price list is also available, just phone write or email today for a free copy today. gabriele@gabrieles.com.au

www.premierpostal.com PPA holds it’s auctions on the 3rd Sunday of the Month with around 4000 lots per auction. Our auctions include stamps, postal history, postal stationary, postmarks,postcards etc from around the world. We also provide a searchable Post Office reference database for Australia and several other counties. david@premierpostal.com

www.richardjuzwin.com The leading specialist dealers in Australasian stamps and the largest private dealer (non Auction) company in Australia. info@richardjuzwin.com.au

www.varisell.com Worldwide stamps, covers, errors, proofs, specimens, postal stationery, philatelic literature, postcards, paper money, signed FDC-s and more in our easy to use online store. Prompt, courteous service from America. Varisell@aol.com

www.rap.com.au The website for Australia, Australian Territories, commercial and philatelic covers, and informative articles on the subjects. rap@rap.com.au

78 - Stamp News

www.stampsale.com New Zealand and worldwide in our Ashford Stamps postal auctions. Ask for a catalogue, or view the website. Also ask for direct sales list of NZ Chalons. ashford@stampsale.com

www.sutherlandphilatelics.com.au Long-established mail order dealer comprehensively covering British Isles, Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Australasia and Japan. Prompt courteous service and an extensive user-friendly website. sutherlandphil@bigpond.com

www.stampsaustralia.com.au Sydney Philatelics - Largest On-Line Shop in Australia ! – User-Friendly – 10,000 and more Philatelic Items – Just a mouse click away ! Over 100 Pages of Australasia, British Commonwealth, Booklets, Accessories.etc. Always Buying ! Est 27 Years. info@stampsaustralia.com.au

www.zirinskystamps.com Interested in a interesting monthly electronic stamp newsletter from New York? Take a look at www.zirinskystamps.com/Newsletter

www.sevenseas.com.au Search our website for full listing of stamps and Seven Seas albums and pages and other accessories. We look forward to serving you. stamps@sevenseas.com.au

www.glenstephens.com Largest and most visited Stamp Dealer website in the Southern Hemisphere. 250 different pages of stamp bargains and archives! $4,000 prize always on offer. glen@glenstephens.com

BILBY STAMPS & COVERS _______ www.bilbystamps.com.au ann@bilbystamps.com.au HALLMARK STAMPS ______ hallmark@senet.com.au www.philatelyunlimited.com.au KENNEDY STAMPS P/L _ www.kennedystamps.com.au stamps@kennedystamps.com.au KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS AND COINS _ www.kevinmorgan.com.aukevinmorgan2@live.com PACIFIC STAMPS ___________ www.pacificstamps.com.au info@pacificstamps.com.au STAMP NEWS AUSTRALASIA ____ www.stampnews.net.au stampnewsaus@gmail.com STANLEY GIBBONS UK _______www.stanleygibbons.com sales@stanleygibbons.co.uk STATUS INTERNATIONAL _______________www.statusint.com auction@statusint.com

WE ARE ALWAYS BUYING, CONTACT US BEFORE OFFERING ELSWHERE! We want to buy collections, accumulations, dealer stocks, etc, etc. Australia and States, Kangaroos, King George V Heads, Pre-decimal, Decimal, Covers, Great Britain, British Commonwealth, Foreign. Here are some examples of the prices we can pay: Australia C of A wmk Kangaroo High Values 10/- -Two Pounds, Specimen overprints, mint lightly hinged $120 Australia 5/- Harbour Bridge, MUH $795, MLH $295, Fine postally used $225, cto used with gum $150, without gum $135, slightly second grade (no bits missing please but may have minor thins, heavier cancel, short perfs etc) $65 Mint unhinged, pre-decimals in singles, blocks or sheets. Definitives 1d to 1/7d we pay 4c per stamp, Low value Commemoratives, 2d to 1/- we pay 5c per stamp, High value definitives 2/- to 4/- we pay 10c per stamp, High value Commemoratives 2/- or 2/3d we pay 40c per stamp. Decimals for postage including AAT, and postally valid issues from Cocos and Christmas Islands may be torn or damaged (no bits missing please) but must have gum. Values 1c to 68c we pay 40% face value, 70c to $20 we pay 50% face value, must be sorted by value in packets/envelopes and supplied with a concise list. We reserve the right to counter offer on messy lots. Post Office Packs and Year Books with stamps in place we pay 30% face value, year books with stamps in original stocksheets we pay 45% face value Mint PSEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20c - 60c we pay 30% face value, 70c pay 40% face value, no stuck down flaps please Recent Commemorative Bundleware, 55c values and above we pay $1 per bundle. Small or Large format High value Definitives fine used 1989 to date with circular cancels $1 to $3 we pay 5% face value, $3 to $20 we pay 10% face value. High value commemoratives, values $1 and above as above again from 1989 onwards, we pay 10% face value. Coins, Medals, Banknotes We buy Australian coins, loose or in sets, decimal and pre-decimal, including Perth Mint and Royal Australian Mint Product. Also buying Worldwide Gold and Silver coins. Pre-decimal and Decimal Banknotes also required in all grades, also military medal groups. Our minimum purchase value is $200, smaller lots respectfully declined, please confirm all lots via phone or email before sending and send via registered/ insured mail, or contact us for an appointment, all transactions carried out in strictest confidence. WE PAY ENHANCED PRICES TO GST REGISTERED DEALERS WHO PROVIDE A TAX INVOICE.

Kevin Morgan Stamps and Coins, PO Box 1290, Upwey, Victoria 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693 email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Stamp News - 79

r s o r f e s ib t f cr i G s b u S

Gift options for new subscribers

In 2017 we are making these new subscription offers to make your subscription even more affordable: For each 12 months of your new subscription you may choose 1 of the following: 1) 2 recent Australia PNC covers, our choice retail value $45â&#x20AC;Śor ask for a list of those available. 2) Approx 1250 Australian Stamps, unsorted, off paper, retail value $30 3) 110mm Illuminated Magnifier on stand, RRP $35 4) Approx 1250 World Stamps, unsorted off paper, retail value $30 5) 30 Eureka stocksheets, made in Australia on a Hagner machine, our choice of strip sizes, retail value $37.50 6) Australian Comprehensive Catalogue, 3 volumes complete, latest edition, RRP $99 7) A mixed selection of Prinz black or clear mounts (state which) retail value $45 8) A pair of European Made stainless steel 150mm pointed tweezers, in safety wallet, plus a perforation gauge RRP $20.00 9) Approx 1250 British Commonwealth stamps unsorted off paper, retail value $30 10) 500 Different Australian stamps, retail value $25 For a lifetime subscription you will receive all 10 gifts. In the event of your chosen gifts being unavailable, we reserve the right to substitute. Please circle the gifts required and return with your completed subscription form on the facing page together with and payment to: Stamp News Subscriptions, PO Box 1290, Upwey Vic. 3158 Australia. Email and telephone subscriptions always welcome. 80 - Stamp News

Subscribe and Save up to $1.80 per copy over newsagency prices* *5yr subscription CHOOSE FROM OUR STAMP NEWS SUBSCRIPTION OFFERS!

This months free gift for subscribers: A complete thematic set or minisheet (may differ from those illustrated)

All prices include postage and packaging within Australia

6 months 12 months 24 months 36 months 60 months Lifetime

$54.50 $99.50 $189.50 $259.00 $429.00 $895.00

Every Month an exciting free gift for subscribers only.

Please add for postage & packaging: $2.50 per issue for NZ & Asia/Pacific Region $4.50 per issue rest of the world (airmail) NOTE: NEW LOWER PRICES

Please note: All subscriptions are nonrefundable and non-transferable. OfďŹ ce Use Only

SUBSCRIPTION FORM - ABN 61 577 987 652 Stamp News, PO Box 1290 Upwey, VIC, 3158, Australia Ph: 0425 795 693 Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com

Please enrol/re-enrol me as a subscriber to Stamp News Please start my subscription from the ................2017 issue Tick one (All prices include GST, Postage & Packaging within Australia 6 month trial subscription $54.50

1 year subscription $99.50

2 year subscription $189.50

3 year subscription $259.00

5 year subscription $429.00

Lifetime subscription $895.00

I enclose cheque/money order (CIRCLE ONE!) for the above amount - OR I hereby pay by Visa/Mastercard/Amex/Diners Club (CIRCLE ONE!) Card No: Name on card:................................................................................................. Expiry Date: ................................... Signature ............................................... Subscription Address: Name: ....................................................................... Address: ......................................................................................................... City:............................................ State/Postcode ........................................... Country:..................................... Phone: (..........) .......................................... Fax: (.........) .................................email:............... ...........................................

List of Display Advertisers ACTS.........................................51 Australia Post.............................4 Burstamp...................................77 Classic Stamps. ..........................82 Glen Stephens..................5, 17, 47 Kevin Morgan S & C.............33, 37 Mossgreen...................................2 Phoenix Auctions........................84 Premier Postal Auctions.............77 Richard Juzwin.................3, 69, 83 SCDAA.....................................31 Stamp News Mail Order..............46 Stampboards.com. ......................51 Sutherland Phil.........................82 Vance Auctions Ltd....................82

VANCE AUCTIONS LTD. Serving Stamp and Postal History Collectors Since 1972

Auctions every 7 weeks! You can get your FREE colour catalogue or view it online at

www.vanceauctions.com P.O. Box 267, Smithville, Ontario Canada L0R 2A0 Toll Free Phone: 877-957-3364 Fax: 905-957-0100 mail@vanceauctions.com

1312 Generic_BaseAdvert 11/12/2013 8:48 PM Page 1

Frequent Public Auctions Over 1500 Lots per Auction Wide Range of Philatelic items Extensive and Friendly Website Viewing and Bidding Online Excellent Vendor Terms We are always seeking suitable material to be offered in our Public Auctions. Contact us to discuss how our superior service can help you achieve the best results with your consignment. To request a copy of our catalogue, contact us on Ph: 03 8682 9876 or email: phoenix@phoenixauctions.com.au

PhoenixAuctions.com.au Phoenix Auctions Pty Ltd 路 Auction Rooms: Level 2, 170 Queen Street, Melbourne. Australia. Postal Address: GPO Box 4346, Melbourne. Vic. 3001. Australia. 路 ABN: 92 132 987 663 P: +61 3 8682 9876 路 F: +61 3 8677 2858 路 E: phoenix@phoenixauctions.com.au